RE: Comet survives pass through solar corona
December 21, 2011 at 8:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 8:19 am by orogenicman.)
(December 21, 2011 at 6:20 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(December 19, 2011 at 11:39 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Australian observers are reporting that it has not only regained it's stripped tail, but that the comet overall is brightening very quickly. It's already viewable with binoculars in the southern Hemisphere, and some expect it could become a naked eye object very soon.
Oh I love those comets, wasnt there a couple of those at the turn of the century?
There have been a number of rather spectacular comets in the last 15 years. The brightest, and coolest one I saw during that time was Comet Hyakutake. It was spectacular:
![[Image: comet_Hyakutake.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.daviddarling.info%2Fimages%2Fcomet_Hyakutake.jpg)
It was orders of magnitude more spectacular than Halley's Comet.
But the barn buster of barn busters of recent comets was Comet p1 McNaught in 2007, which was first spotted in the northern hemisphere, and was a bit unremarkable at the time. But when it got into the southern hemisphere (as seen in Australia), it really lit up:
![[Image: mcnaught575.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=spaceinfo.com.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F04%2Fmcnaught575.jpg)
It was the brightest comet of the last 40 years, was visible in the day time, and holds the record for the largest effect on its surrounding space, as can be seen in the above photograph. Talk about a rock with flatulence!
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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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