Hopefully you're off the grid, too, you don't want any mutated survivors coming after your dehydrated water and vacuum-sealed survival meals. Are we exactly sure when and where Elenin will first appear to the naked eye or easily visible with binoculars. I mean like I live on the west coast which direction should I look and when should I expect to have a good view.
I have Meade telescope that I want to set up out side when the visibility is easily attainable. So I can a least see this monster coming and watch the fire works. Yours truly, a Rinky dinky armature astronomer. Who sense's trouble on the horizon. Just because the comet has self-destructed broken up into smaller pieces doesnt mean the matter or mass making up the comet has suddenly disappeared.
It will however cause it to lose mass more quickly than before due to solar weathering, since the multiple smaller pieces means more available surface area to be ablated. I am reading these post and it just cracks me up. I don't consider myself highly inteligent but I question others who bring up theirs in a conversation.
Like the two people who bet the world isnt going to end. How do u plan to payout if your wrong? Save Dark Skies. By: Diana Hannikainen November 11, By: Bob King November 10, By: Camille M. Carlisle November 9, This Week's Sky At a Glance. By: Alan MacRobert November 5, Astronomy and Society. By: David Dickinson November 4, Stellar Science. By: Jure Japelj November 3, By: Monica Young November 3, Solar System.
By: Monica Young November 1, Constant Contact Use. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact. Michael Mattiazzo. Tags Celestial Events. Comments Rasmussen August 31, at pm Just seen this article and find it odd that NASA's JPL is still tracking it by it's gravity and noticed its creating more as it gets closer.
Log in to Reply You must be logged in to post a comment. Richimon August 31, at pm If Elenin has broken apart, do we not stand a good chance of an incredible Comet Elenin meteor storm because the smaller pieces will be effected differently by the sun's gravity differently than the whole body, slowing the broken leftovers enough to have them rain down on the planet as we cross Elenin's original orbit.
Jon Hanford August 31, at pm "If Elenin has broken apart, do we not stand a good chance of an incredible Comet Elenin meteor storm? John Parsons September 1, at pm I don't know where you get this icy nucleus. Tiffany September 1, at pm You know it's so funny that the closer this thing gets, the more people are trying to dissuade everyone from worrying about it. Tony Flanders September 2, at am Just to clarify a few things: First, the material from Comet Elenin willcontinue to orbit the Sun, though it will be too dispersed to appear bright.
If I win, I get the cash in 20years. If you win, I pay you the day after the asteroid hits. Any takers? Beatty is extrememly qualified to report on this subject Michael C. Boy, this is really strange. John Wharton September 2, at am How I long for the days when internet access wasn't so readily available and funding for state mental facilities was more abundant.
Roy Roy September 2, at pm I would imagine that the coming year has a lot of doom sayers looking for any sign that could lead to our demise. You can follow Space. Follow Space. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. Yeomans knows that while Elenin may be gone, there will always be Internet rumors that will attempt to conjure up some form of interplanetary bogeyman out of Elenin, or some equally obscure and scientifically uninteresting near-Earth object.
Thinking of ways to make himself any more clear about the insignificance of this matter is somewhat challenging for a scientist who has dedicated his life to observing asteroids and comets and discovering their true nature and effects on our solar system. This is an ex-comet. NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing relatively close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes.
The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes the physical nature of a subset of them, and predicts their paths to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet. There will be a meteor shower in November just as there is every year….
This meteor shower comes out of the constellation Leo. These meteoroids are as remnant of the breakup of the comet the comet Tempel-Tuttle. Do we cross into its trail? Can someone please educate me on the Elenin as a neutron star variant theory? Is this possible? I posted this a day or so ago and it appears to have been deleted, along with a similar question from Belita. I truly appreciate the educated responses on this site.
Since the world is ending… I better start that band now…. Thank God for people like you that believe in facts and not trying to lie or play mean pranks on people. Maybe this will help wake him up a little. Well how do you explain the fact its been visible for the last few clear nights over NZ?
I saw it and 2 other comets or maybe it in 3 pieces and with the naked eye. Left of the sun 20 minutes or so before sunset tonight, Sept 20th. Large as life you might say. Professional astronomers and NASA would be most interested too! According to other websites there are several comets in or close to our solar system so if this is being used here as reputable information I have to say it is incomplete.
Keep your eyes to the skys…. Brown dwarves are about the size of Jupiter if I remember correctly. We would see this already. Also if it had a huge mass it would have effected Saturn when it passed by it. Nothing is hiding in its tail, well because the tail always points away from the sun therefore it would be pretty easy to tell if something were hiding behind it. According to one of the better known masters of all things conspiratorial It is either a ship or a TIME capsule that we sent to ourselves 13, yrs ago!
I reddit on da intardnet so I knows it must be da truth!! I mean why would he? No doubt what really happened is that the CIA activated the secret laser weapon they had put on SDO to blow Elenin up while no one could see.
And it is a sad reflection upon the general state of affairs on the Internet that I feel I need to make it clear that the above was a joke. The top photos are not even comparable photos. That is a hairsbreadth in all of the vastness of space.
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