Comet Lovejoy survives perihelion!

Nice!

And more importantly, what is Comet Love Joy made of?

that is so awesome!

Ionized gas?

Of course, ionized gas makes up the ion tail of a comet. This is astronomy 101.

NiFe core, high rotational speed and great elmag. field.

Aiming only 5 degrees under ecliptic with at least 10x speed.

AND CERTAINLY - NO COMET - the arrow of Sagittarius.

EU

Mainstream astronomy

Where's the massive outburst from the sun at perihelion? Oh right, it didn't happen, must be because of EU as well... LOL

Last Edited by Astromut on 12/16/2011 05:53 PM

1700UT: I'm going to hope he doesn't mind me doing this, and steal a quote here from highly-respected astronomer John Bortle: "I trust that most here appreciate that we are witnessing one of the most extraordinary events in cometary history."

Let that sink in a minute, because he is absolutely correct. This is not simply "news-worthy", or even "of great interest"; this is indeed completely extraordinary.

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full quote:

I trust that most here appreciate that we are witnessing one of the most
extraordinary events in cometary history. The manner in which Comet Lovejoy is
evolving is, to my knowledge, totally unique in the comet record.

[...]Likewise, the reappearance of the tail possibly may suggest that within two or
three days a singular shaft of pale light may emerge from out of the twilight
for observers in the Southern Hemisphere, resembling the ghostly tails displayed
by the Great Southern Comets of 1880 and 1887.

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It's probably a Klingon Bird of Prey with heat shields at maximum. Judging by the direction it was slingshotting around the sun, I think it was trying to go back to the future but it probably failed due to some warp drive malfunction....

ok, people, amazing that the coment came out and bla lba lba.


what i want to know is:

why is a trail BEtween THE comet and the sun??? isnt it suppose to be in front of the comet away from the sun?

or even more, why the trail is not disintegrated instantly? i meant, it is dust basically touching the sun, what is this dust made of?

wow!!!!!

Wow that's quite a claim..I've been trying to figure out what you mean by that and haven't had much luck yet..

very interesting theory

edit to add: I think it's interesting that Sagittarius is located in the Galactic Center of the Milky way and there are sites out there that associate it with 2012

[...]With 22 stars in this constellation known to have planets, Sagittarius has more known planetary host stars than any other constellation.

..The Milky Way is at its densest near Sagittarius, as this is where the galactic center lies

..Sagittarius A*, is associated with a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

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the 'WOW! signal' originated from Sagittarius..

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I'm still not sure what you mean by the Arrow of Sagittarius
I'm aware that in the picture below it resembles an arrow..so I'm assuming that you consider it to be some sort of spacecraft?



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this shows C2 is in synch with C3 @ 1:08 in..

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i could not care any less about this fake comet story, and believe me i've tried.

Lies I tell Ye'!

The Tail is made up from Jellyfish and Kippers,its' the only place in the Universe that Kippers Live outside of their Plastic Shells - I know this as Im' a Fisherman and Ive' never caught nor seen a Kipper in the Ocean..nor are they in Anglers' Books,look for yourselves,the Common Kipper is in no Fish Book on this Planet.

The Nucleus consists of Two Socialists and One Communist from an ex-Soviet Satellite.

I though comet tails ALWAYS pointed away from a sun, even when traveling AWAY from a sun. Seeing that space is a vacuum.
Maybe it's not a comet.


Last Edited by Oldcrow64 on 12/17/2011 11:45 AM

Not being sarcastic when I ask - didn't astronomy 101 tell us that it wouldn't survive the sun?

from another thread

This could be a celestial Y2K



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It's more likely an ET Space Craft than a comet.

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No, it said it probably wouldn't, but it also said there was a small chance it would and would go on to be even brighter than before.

Dec 19th, 2011

1400UT:[...]Lovejoy is now visible again from the ground! And indeed it's actually more visible now than it was before it plunged through the solar atmosphere! (So much for the comet I said would never survive perihelion...) A multitude of ground-based observations of Comet Lovejoy are being reported now, and for the lucky folks in the Southern Hemisphere, this comet is just going to become easier and easier to see.

So what surprised could Lovejoy have for us? It's hard to say as we've already been well off-the-mark in several respects..

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new animated gifs..

this one doesn't seem real..
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not sure what to make of this one..
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got this one off of Spaceweather..



"Why the wiggles?" wonders Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab. "We're not sure. There might be some kind of helical motion going on. Perhaps we're seeing material in the tail magnetically 'clinging' to coronal loops and moving with them. [Coronal loops are huge loops of magnetism that emerge from the sun's surface and thread the sun's atmosphere.] There are other possibilities too, and we will certainly investigate those!"

COMET LOVEJOY IN THE MORNING: Noted astronomer John Bortle urges observers (especially in the southern hemisphere) to "begin searching for Comet Lovejoy's bright tail projecting up out of the morning twilight beginning at dawn. The tails of some of the major sungrazing comets have been extraordinarily bright. Comet Lovejoy's apparition has been so bizarre up to this point that it is difficult to anticipate just what might happen next ... [including] the exact sort of tail it might unfurl in the morning sky."

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Last Edited by RTS REDUX on 12/19/2011 11:40 PM

This past week, a rather mundane comet made big headlines when it survived a whisker's (in cosmic terms) distance pass by the Sun, core completely intact. In the days leading up to the predicted close shave, most experts expected Comet Lovejoy to be vaporized into nothing. This weekend, many of these same people were eating their words, going to show that, in science, there is no such thing as certainty.

So, now that it has gripped the astronomical public's imagination, many skywatchers are now asking 'how can I see the comet?' Well, it is, in theory, quite easy.

Right now, Comet Lovejoy, while not all that far from the Sun, is positioned so that it can be seen and/or photographed from the Southern Hemisphere, where is which it will remain for about a month or so. However, come mid January, the comet will make an appearance in the Northern Hemisphere.

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