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ISON !!
Today is the Day !!
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Ya Gotta be Kidding !!~
Am I the only one here that's watching the biggest space thing of my lifetime....around 1:00 EST time is the magic number !!!
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Chances are quite high that it may totally disintegrate due to its super close pass to the sun. Its due to be at perihelion around 11 PST. Tomorrow
the NASA data will tell us if it survived.
http://cometison.gsfc.nasa.gov/index/kiosk/dataset/one_0171
If it does survive then we may be a good show of it just after sunset probably starting around the 1st of Dec.
fingers crossed...
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Its Today
11/28/13 says the nasa website I just left...1:44 EST...Cool !! I just hope nasa and the cameras don't get overloaded like Other Gov sights !!!..But
IT IS TODAY !!
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I've been a fan and have been waiting for NASA to tell me to look up!
Hope it survives. Really, really hope it survives.
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Other web sites
Im stupid when comes to uploading a link !! But If you bounce around the web your find some really CooL live time stuff !! they also sent a few sat's
just for this !!! Hope she makes it back around and sling shots past us without any problems here on this spinnin rock !!
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astrobaja
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the NASA link I gave seems to be overloaded with requests so try this one:
(I made a shorter link with tinyurl cause it was stupid long!!
http://tinyurl.com/l3lv323
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Hope it doesn't survive all the way to my back yard.
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Heres the best image taken of ISON so far by amateur Damian Peach from last week:
http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/c2012_s1_2013_11_15dp.jpg
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David E
If This baby comes back to your yard (possible) all of Baja will be gone !! this isn't a lttle rock size comet !!!! the smallest estimate I saw is 3
miles wide and some put it a hell of a lot bigger...Yikes !!makes me kinda think of wiley the coyote !!LOL just ckd the san fran cron and nothing on
it..so I think they are trying to keep on the quiet side ...when I was a kid I saw all kinds of BIG holes in the ground in mexico and was amazing as a
kid..and don't forget what happened in Serbia...Knarly!!
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Cap: it is not even remotely possible that remnants of ISON will hit Earth. Its actually solid core (not the coma which is the bright portion we see)
is only 2km across (not miles) --compared to Hale Bop which had a core of 30km diameter!!
BTW latest data seems to indicate that its disintegrated.... but it was traveling,
360km/second, thats 1500 X's faster than a jet and faster than any man made probe ever made!!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/11/21/comet_is...
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I think it would be best to re-name ISON comet Icarus!!
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Actual IMage Of Ison Before It Got To The Sun
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1. Timing: ISON will be brightest in the hour before the sun comes up. You can calculate sunrise time for your area here.
2. Clear skies: ISON will not be visible if there is too much cloud cover. Clear Sky Chart is a 48-hour astronomer’s forecast that can predict whether
the sky will be clear and dark at a certain location.
3. Dark skies: City lights can obstruct viewing of ISON, and it will appear brightest in the sky away from city lights. Dark Sky Finder shows light
pollution in and around North American cities.
4. Where to look: Look east toward where the sun will rise. Comet Watch is a free app that points users in the direction of ISON, updated by the
minute. “The easiest way to find it is to look for Mars, and then draw a line down to the east — right where you think the sun is going to rise,” said
NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign (CIOC) coordinator Carey Lisse to the LA Times.
SEE RELATED: Comet ISON: Will it be “the Comet of the Century?”
5. Perihelion: Comet ISON 2013 has a live countdown to perihelion, set to happen on November 28 at 18:37:45 (1:37 pm EST).
According to Universetoday.com, on the morning of November 28, ISON will be about 2.5 degrees from the edge of the sun, which will decrease to .5
degrees by perihelion around midday in the U.S. ISON will be difficult to see at perihelion because it will be very close to the sun and viewers risk
eye damage.
6. Risk of eye damage from the sun on perihelion: U.S. observers risk eye damage if they stare into the sun at midday on Thanksgiving to catch a
glimpse at ISON. Instead there are several websites that will broadcast the event live.
7. Latest news and data on ISON: CIOC has regularly updated data and news on ISON their website. Comet ISON 2013 also has a live feed of ISON’s speed,
distance from the sun, distance from the Earth, and estimated magnitude.
8. No time like the present: As several observers have stated, while ISON may be currently visible during the hour before dawn, its core could break
up at any time, so if you want to see it, do it now.
9. Patience: It takes your eyes about 20 minutes to adapt to the darkness, so give yourself plenty of time before dawn to get outside and get
comfortable. If you don’t see ISON where you should, give it a few minutes, look at other parts of the sky and try again.
10. Luck: Several news outlets have speculated that ISON may be breaking up and won’t survive its trip around the sun, as observers Tuesday reported
ISON is getting less bright. However, other observers, including some at NASA’s STEREO spacecraft state that there is evidence that ISON’s core is
still intact.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/world-ou...
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DavidE: number 10) LUCK: we're out of it, ISON is now ISOFF it has disintegrated....
[Edited on 11-29-2013 by astrobaja]
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Bummer.
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well now 6 hours after perihelion, something has emerged from the other side of the sun, maybe some piece of it has survived after all, only time will
tell.
Comets have a way of confounding even the best of "experts" After all we are only semi evolved simians!!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by astrobaja
DavidE: number 10) LUCK: we're out of it, ISON is now ISOFF it has disintegrated....
[Edited on 11-29-2013 by astrobaja] |
I so want to see a good comet this month that I am adopting the climate-change-deniers approach to life: always assume nasa or any govt employee,
especially the scientist, is lying. Commie scientists say the comet dissolved? I say it exists, and exists even bigger!
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Ahhh goat, the devil makes you say this.
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NASA thinks it may have made it... Time lapse video:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/comet-ison-may-have-survived/#.UpjK9dOIYuo
this has happened before but the comet broke up 3 day later. Let's hope that's not the case this time.
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