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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: theomen on February 19, 2003, 12:21:14 AM
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I came across this site http://cyberspaceorbit.com/ and me not being versed in astronomy at all, I\'m at a loss at what all this means. Could someone enlighten me as to what\'s going on.
*edit, from what I\'ve picked up this thing is 2X\'s the size of Jupiter and will be within 9 million miles of the sun at it\'s closest point. And it has already reached it\'s closest point to earth. It\'s visible with the naked eye, just below pices. My question is why haven\'t we heard anything on the news about such a large event? I mean it\'s the largest comet EVER!
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purdy straight 4ward to me....
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ur link is all buggered. use this instead:
http://cyberspaceorbit.com/
the guy wants your money.. thats it.
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here\'s another site covering it
http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/java/lastC3.html
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Originally posted by theomen
I came across this site http://cyberspaceorbit.com/ and me not being versed in astronomy at all, I\'m at a loss at what all this means. Could someone enlighten me as to what\'s going on.
*edit, from what I\'ve picked up this thing is 2X\'s the size of Jupiter and will be within 9 million miles of the sun at it\'s closest point. And it has already reached it\'s closest point to earth. It\'s visible with the naked eye, just below pices. My question is why haven\'t we heard anything on the news about such a large event? I mean it\'s the largest comet EVER!
It\'s Not a Comet
It\'s Planet X
;)
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here\'s some info I found;
The SOHO spacecraft is currently generating spectacular images of a recently found comet called NEAT as the icy body circles the Sun and appears to have been struck by a massive solar eruption. The chance encounter could lead to new discoveries about the interactions of comets with hot, charged particles billowing from the Sun.
NEAT is putting on what may turn out to be the most remarkable comet show ever witnessed by SOHO, which has photographed more than 500 comets rounding the Sun.
"It is far the brightest and largest comet seen," Paal Brekke, SOHO deputy project scientist, told SPACE.com.
Comet NEAT near the Sun on Feb. 18 as a coronal mass ejection billows out. The horizontal line running through the comet\'s head is an artifact caused by saturation of the imager. The circle in the middle is created by a device that blocks out the main disk of the Sun.
SOHO stands for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The satellite sits partway between Earth and the Sun and is designed primarily to monitor space weather like the eruption currently witnessed. Live images of the comet and the eruptive event are available at the SOHO website to anyone with an Internet connection.
The comet, officially C/2002 V1, should be visible in SOHO\'s LASCO-3 camera through the pre-dawn hours Thursday.
A solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), appears to have hit the comet Monday, Brekke said. Scientists think they observed a kink propagating down the comet\'s ion tail.
"Certainly such effects from a CME could give us new information about comets, their tails and how they interact with the solar wind," said Brekke, who works for the European Space Agency out of an office at NASA\'s Goddard Space Flight Center. SOHO is a joint project between the two agencies.
Another eruption lifted off the Sun early Tuesday [as seen in the picture near the top-right of this page] but it\'s not clear yet which direction it is aimed.
NEAT was just one-tenth of Earth\'s distance from the Sun when it made its closest approach to the Sun this week. Solar energy boils gas and dust from the comet\'s nucleus. Sunlight then reflects off this fresh material, creating the glowing head and tail of the comet. The tail always points away from the Sun, driven by solar radiation.
The comet was faintly visible in the evening sky last week for viewers with dark sky conditions. It has been in LASCO\'s field of view since Sunday. It will begin to drop out of the picture, in the lower right, at about 4 or 5 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 20.
NEAT will then begin a long journey back out into the fringes of the solar system. While Earth orbits the Sun every year, comet NEAT requires about 37,000 years to make a single, elongated loop.
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AHHHHH PLANET X!!!! :rolleyes:
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some more stuff, here\'s a orbit simulation;
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2002+V1
look at feb 27, and how close it gets to mercury.
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I guess we are all gonna die then!
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OMG.... I just read your sig Kurt....
MR PERFECT DIED?????????????
/me clicks onto rajahwwf.com
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Experts say that around every 1 million years a big comet crashes into the Earth, and, according to those scientists, we\'re more than 1000 years late. Crash in 3................2.................1..............
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we\'re all doomed.. if a comet or blackhole don\'t kill us, we\'ll kill each other first....
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black hole? The Earth is drifting that far away???
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black holes are everywhere.. only takes one to F@#K us up.. they move around alot...
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*YAWN!!!*
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Originally posted by theomen
[BMy question is why haven\'t we heard anything on the news about such a large event? I mean it\'s the largest comet EVER! [/B]
Hmm, let me think…Oh yeah, because this is one of the most uninteresting things to ever hit the net and due to the lack of public interest nobody would air such dribble.
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I hope a comet hits us - thats the way I want the world to end. None of this bullsh!t war stuff. Just a nice, old fashioned comet!
;)
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Planet X you say? :eek:
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmaddox.xmission.com%2Fcontroller3.jpg&hash=4f0d18b58ce87cfb00cc7c4ecc71813c7a61615d)
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Originally posted by Adan
Experts say that around every 1 million years a big comet crashes into the Earth, and, according to those scientists, we\'re more than 1000 years late. Crash in 3................2.................1..............
If that was true, then we wouldn\'t be alive. Your thinking of an asteroid. If a comet hit us, at that velocity, everything will be killed.