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Summer Comet Update

Posted by michael on from the look-out-above dept.

karlg100 writes "Space.com is carrying this article about the 3 comets this summer. The first of the 3, Bradfield, is visible via the SOHO observatory. You can see the movie here. Comets LINEAR and NEAT may give us a display in the coming months. Stay tuned."

10 comments

  1. And if they hit the Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can use this to see the effects. I particularly like the overpressure values. Good predictor of mayhem.

    1. Re:And if they hit the Earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hm... According to that page, if my car lands in Chicago at 75 miles/second, I should be able to survive, but everybody south of around Kalamazoo gets roasted.

      Just one of those little things that might come in handy for future refernece...

  2. Don't bother commenting in this dead article.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Don't waste your time in this dead and useless article. It's all happening in the Apple section, with the Hungarian Language OS X Release.

    So come on over and open your ears, to learn.

  3. SOHO by isorox · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So is that a telescope in a Small Office/Home Office? Or in a strip club in London?

    1. Re:SOHO by AnalogFile · · Score: 4, Informative

      Neither. It is a satellite.

      SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA. The on board telescope has a coronograph: that is it masks out the sun central body to permit the study of the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere (that is known as the corona). This makes it also great for the observation of comets when they do a "very close to the sun" passage.

      The home page is here and the Bradfield comet images are (for the moment) here .

  4. Sky and Telescope article by OneOver137 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good info here about the two that will likely reach naked eye magnitude or better.

  5. SOHO view of comet Bradfield... by DoraLives · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...is looking mighty impressive in the latest LASCO C3 frame, with a coma/nucleus that's so bright it's bleeding into adjacent pixels on the image. Neato. Grabbed it off as a desktop background.

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    1. Re:SOHO view of comet Bradfield... by 33nine3 · · Score: 1

      > Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts
      > absolutely. Thus: Absolute knowledge corrupts absolutely.

      But knowledge of the Absolute obliterates any person who may
      be corrupted by power.

  6. nut or not a nut? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this guy has interesting stuff to say. it's up to you whether or not to believe him.

  7. NUT by StJefferson · · Score: 1, Informative
    The guy's a founding member of the Tinfoil Hat Brigade.

    Interesting? No more interesting than any other raving lunatic on a street corner.

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