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DavidE
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Location: Baja California México
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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Whale-ista
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Location: San Diego
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Mood: Sunny with chance of whales
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The undead comet...
ISON's still going!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/29/ison_aft...
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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captkw
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Location: el charro b.c.s.
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heading back !! (towards us)
Ison is HUGE !! 250 000KM COMA and after rounding the sun has slowed down a bit,,but,, still very much in the big picture !!! FACT !! I heard so
many folks that think that it just is gone...Not so my friend...Stay informed,,and happy Holidays !!....K&T
[Edited on 12-13-2013 by captkw]
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Sweetwater
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Mood: chilly today hot tomale
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Not sure if you have more of whatever, I'll have some....but the comet is pronounced dead......
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WASHINGTON – Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was
barely a year old. The comet, which excited astronomers and the media as it zipped within 730,000 miles of the sun on Thanksgiving Day, was
pronounced dead at a scientific conference Tuesday. Astronomers who had followed the ice ball mourned the loss of the sky show that once promised to
light up during December. 'Sorry, everyone, Comet ISON is dead. But its memory will live on.' - Naval Research Lab astronomer Karl Battams
Naval Research Lab astronomer Karl Battams, who headed the observing campaign for the comet, said ISON (EYE'-sahn) was stretched and pulled by the
sun's powerful gravity. It was also hit with solar radiation. And the icy snowball just fell apart. "At this point it seems like there is nothing
left," Battams said at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. "Sorry, everyone, Comet ISON is dead. But its memory will live on."
Astronomers had hoped it would survive because some — but not most — comets make it past close approaches with the sun. Last year, Comet Lovejoy did.
Had ISON survived it would have provided good naked-eye viewing in early December for the Northern Hemisphere, astronomers said. NASA had aimed
several telescopes and spacecraft at the comet to watch its close brush with the sun, only to find it missing after the encounter. Comets are balls
of dust and ice from the formation of the solar system billions of years ago. ISON was on its first trip after leaving the Oort cloud on the distant
fringes of the solar system. Unlike comets that are "hardened" by several trips around the sun, ISON just couldn't survive its maiden voyage, Battams
said. ISON, about half a mile wide, was tiny and probably smaller than originally estimated, Battams said. As the comet neared its closest approach
to the sun, astronomers had a sense of loss. Battams called watching it in those final hours "a process of heartbreak."
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Everbody\'s preachin\' at me that we all wanna git to heaven, trouble is, nobody wants to die to git there.-BB King
Reality is what does not go away when you stop believing in it. -Philip K Dick
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832, German writer, artist and politician)
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I\'ve never tried before. - Mae West
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.
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captkw
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Sweet water and all
OK..belive what Ya want..But its not dead !! simply fact !!and the "dust" field is like 20 mil miles wide !!!
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