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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ghi on December 15, 2011, 07:03:59 PM
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Some fresh images from SOHO ,interesting to watch almost live; it`s about to hit the Sun this evening;
http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/data_query_search_url?Session=web&Resolution=2&Display=Images&NumImg=30&Types=instrument=LASCO:detector=C2
More info images here on SOHO sitte;
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html
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Too cloudy here to see anything :(
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I got $10 on the sun to win.
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I got $10 on the sun to win.
well if you lose no one would care about money anymore :lol
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Too cloudy here to see anything :(
Too night here to see anything.
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I got $10 on the sun to win.
Ahh,i'm talking bs, no splash this evening, but would look fun; won;t collide with the Sun. I was just looking at small bodies JPL trajectory model for this comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) and show a close approach to Sun, this night but not collision
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=dK11W030;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
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Watched the c3 movie and caught 2 possible companions to this monster. One starts on the 13th about 17:18 on the time. Its lower middle left and goes right toward the corona. The other one may be an instrument shadow right in front of the Lovejoy comet.
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I got $10 on the sun to win.
The sun Lost the Comet survived :D
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The sun didn't lose, the comet backed off at the last instant and decided not to fight. All drive by talk and no contact. The sun wins by default. Pay up.
:neener:
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The sun Lost the Comet survived :D
Nice video provided by NASA below; lucky Comet dodging 300miles/second solar plasma winds and 2 milions degrees heat through solar corona; must be made from some unknown matter or antimatter.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=124915541
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=124914011
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/old/03dec2011/
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It wasnt a comet. It was the Klingon Bird of Prey circling the sun to go forward in time with two humpback whales :noid
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It wasnt a comet. It was the Klingon Bird of Prey circling the sun to go forward in time with two humpback whales :noid
"Is it time for another colorful metaphor?" :lol
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Apparently a classified photo that NASA captured has been leaked out onto the internet about the "comet"
(http://images.wikia.com/startrek/images/2/24/Slingshot.jpg)
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:rofl :rofl
we'll have the 88mm ready by the time this vulcher gets here :D
Last week was in news, parked next to Mercury. :noid
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45571392/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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It wasnt a comet. It was the Klingon Bird of Prey circling the sun to go forward in time with two humpback whales :noid
Can we get a depressing robot and a sperm whale, too?
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:rofl :rofl
we'll have the 88mm ready by the time this vulcher gets here :D
Last week was in news, parked next to Mercury. :noid
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45571392/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Now lets poke at it with a satellite and see if they get pissed and declare war :devil
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A closer inspection reveals the truth about this "comet" passing by the sun. It appears that there is some further gas savings when using the Suns gravity. Nice find Challenge.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm146/dkff49/savegas1.jpg)
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Can we get a depressing robot and a sperm whale, too?
You forgot the flowers . Oh no , not again !
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As long as I dont have to listen to poetry
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Sun 0 (zero) Comet LoveJoy 1
See ya in 800or 900 years 'ol Sol, and you can try again. :cheers:
Please leave your $10 at the door as you leave.
Never before seen event.
Again ....we ain't as smart as we thought we were pertaining to the cosmos we inhabit. :old:
Regards,
Sun
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/16/science-comet-lovejoy-sun.html
Comet survives close encounter with sun
A small comet survived what astronomers figured would be a sure death when it danced uncomfortably close to the broiling sun.
Comet Lovejoy, which was only discovered a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to melt Thursday night when it came close to where temperatures hit several million degrees. Astronomers had tracked 2,000 other sun-grazing comets make the same suicidal trip. None had ever survived.
But astronomers watching live with NASA telescopes first saw the sun's corona wiggle as Lovejoy went close to the sun. They were then shocked when a bright spot emerged on the sun's other side. Lovejoy lived.
"I was delighted when I saw it go into the sun and I was astounded when I saw something re-emerge," said U.S. Navy solar researcher Karl Battams.
Lovejoy didn't exactly come out of its hellish adventure unscathed. Only 10 per cent of the comet — which was probably millions of tons — survived the encounter, said W. Dean Pesnell, project scientist for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which tracked Lovejoy's death-defying plunge.
And the comet lost something pretty important: its tail.
"It looks like the tail broke off and is stuck" in the sun's magnetic field, Pesnell said.
Comets circle the sun and sometimes get too close. Lovejoy came within 121,000 kilometres of the sun's surface, Battams said. For a small object often described as a dirty snowball comprised of ice and dust, that brush with the sun should have been fatal.
Astronomers say it probably didn't melt completely because the comet was larger than they thought.
The frozen comet was evaporating as it made the trip toward the sun, "just like you're sweating on a hot day," Pesnell said.
"It's like an ice cube going by a barbecue grill," he said.
Pesnell said the comet, although only discovered at the end of November by an Australian observer, probably is related to a comet that came by Earth on the way to the sun in 1106.
As Comet Lovejoy makes its big circle through the solar system, it will be another 800 or 900 years before it nears the sun again, astronomers say.
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A closer inspection reveals the truth about this "comet" passing by the sun. It appears that there is some further gas savings when using the Suns gravity. Nice find Challenge.
Don't those bloody Rooks fly high enough already without going into Solar orbit?! Sheesh.
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I'll bet $50 for Ditka to win.