Comet ISON

[Ah Pook]

Anyone else following this?

[merl]

Didn't it essentially burn up?

[Irving]

I heard a blip on the radio how news stations were reporting that it flew into the sun, but they reported too early as it came back out the other side. That's all I know though. Have an article?

[merl]

I had heard the same news blurb, melted, but it appears to still be questioned.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/comet...sun-2D11670914

"Right now it does appear that a least some small fraction of ISON has remained in one piece and is actively releasing material," he wrote. "We have no idea how big this nucleus is, if there is indeed one. If there is a nucleus, it is still too soon to tell how long it will survive. If it does survive for more than a few days, it is too soon to tell if the comet will be visible in the night sky. If it is visible in the night sky, it is too soon to say how bright it will be. ... I think you get the picture, yes?"

[Ah Pook]

I heard that it was coming within 600mil miles of the sun. They figured a dust cloud would come out the other side.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Explanation: After failing to appear for Sun staring spacecraft at perihelion, its harrowing closest approach to the Sun, sungrazing Comet ISON was presumed lost. But ISON surprised observers yesterday as material still traveling along the comet's trajectory became visible and even developed an extensive fan-shaped dust tail. Edited and processed to HD format, this video (, youtube) is composed of frames from the SOHO spacecraft's coronographs. It follows the comet in view of the wide (blue tint) and narrow (red tint) field cameras in the hours both before and after perihelion passage. In both fields, overwhelming sunlight is blocked by a central occulting disk. A white circle indicates the Sun's positon and scale. With questions to be answered and the tantalizing possibility that a small cometary nucleus has survived in whole or part, surprising comet ISON will be rising before dawn in planet Earth's skies in the coming days.

Can't get the Unknown Comic out of my head.

[roberth]

I've been watching it a little. I saw it on the Space Weather website but they appear to be unavailable right now. I think they are back now --> http://spaceweather.com/

This is the archive part of the website --> http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=28&month=11&year=2013

[Irving]

So are those a bunch of solar flares? Man that's cool.

[sniper7]

Looks like a warm winter!

[Jmetz]

Been following a little. Tried to see it last Tuesday sunrise but it was too close to the sun and wasn't visible in the hour before sunrise.

[spqrzilla]

Its dead, no its alive, no its dead

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/3...on-dies-again/

It got really messed up by its close approach.