(December 30, 2011 at 2:12 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: ... and boy was everyone surprised that plucky ball of rock and gas survived the sun's corona.
I can't help but imagine the comet being named after the simpson character Reverend Lovejoy.
Do you know where it's headed next?
I imagine the first trip through the sun must have slowed it down and changed its orbital trajectory as that it might plunge into the sun again soon.
It is headed away from the sun, outbounded towards somewhere else, probably the outer solar system. But it hasn't passed the Earth's orbit yet, and is only visible from the southern hemisphere. It will be visible from the Northern hemisphere towards the south in the coming months, if it stays as active as it currently is; and if so, it should be quite a sight. Considering the battering it has taken, it could also break up. If that happens, and if it stays active after breaking up, it could give us a really interesting show. Then again, it could fizzle out. You never know about comets.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"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! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"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! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
