BREAKING: A RARE SUPERCOMET RUSHES TO SUN....

inb4 new doom!!

It's hardly rushing...

Oh I's On now

Biatch

[link to www.space.com]


he most exciting aspect of this new comet concerns its preliminary orbit, which bears a striking resemblance to that of the “Great Comet of 1680.” That comet put on a dazzling show; it was glimpsed in daylight and later, as it moved away from the sun, it threw off a brilliantly long tail that stretched up from the western twilight sky after sunset like a narrow searchlight beam for some 70 degrees of arc. (A person's clenched fist, held at arm’s length, covers roughly 10 degrees of sky.)

The fact that the orbits are so similar seems to suggest Comet ISON and the Great Comet of 1680 could related or perhaps even the same object.

[link to www.huffingtonpost.com]


a trajectory that could make for one of the most spectacular night-sky events in living memory.


This will be cool to see!

Start prepping everybody!

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They didn't have electronics back then.

Should be quite the show !

If it doesn't break up when it slingshots the sun, it will be amazing! Bright as the full moon!

Nibiru

"The comet 1680 approached so near, that, at its perihelion, it was not more distant from the sun than a sixteenth part of its diameter; and, if it returns, which some predict, in the year 2255, it may then fall into the sun"

Can't wait for this, it will be great.

mother shiptons comet?
wow

"Using the 575 year period, William Whiston, a contemporary and disciple of the great Isaac Newton believed that the comet of 1680 had literally grazed the earth after the fall of Eden, triggering the Noachian Deluge (Noah's Flood) in 2346 BC"

It's probably not the same comet as the 1680, but if that one caused the biblical flood....

Start making your ark!

Nice! I saw this thread had like 300 views I blinked and it was at a 1000 haha

5 stars

The bs flag is as overused and abused if not more so than I love you and I'm sorry.

hope it happens

It's a longshot, but if Comet ISON breaks up at perihelion we could see cataclysmic doom. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragmented into 20 pieces which slammed into Jupiter in 1994. One fragment hitting the Pacific Ocean would have global consequences. Not likely, but something to think about. This monster is no Elenin, hehe.

[link to www2.jpl.nasa.gov]

[link to www2.jpl.nasa.gov]

Analysis of SL9 impacts:
[link to www2.jpl.nasa.gov]

Cool, a large comet that should produce an interesting show, once they pinpoint the trajectory we'll be able to know what parts of the Earth will have the best seats in the house for an astronomical fireworks show.

And no, this does not spell doom people. Pick up a science book once in a while, this stuff is cool!

All right then Huge, if you say it may be doom I will believe it. I follow you some on Nin's solar thread and do not remember you being too doomy of a person in general. Lol. If you say it is possible, I will take note. :)

bolon yokte kuh coming our way

they already know

for ONCE we in the northern hemisphere will have the box seat

THIS THIS THIS

Thread: Comet ISON C/2012 S1 is bolon yokte of the mayans

Thread: Comet ISON C/2012 S1 is bolon yokte of the mayans

I'm not sure its the comets with periodic orbits we need to worry about. Its the comets that are "new" to our system that we really need to worry about, or those bodies floating around outside on the periphery of our solar system the size of small planets that could decide to wander into the suns gravitational field.

Why o why couldn't it come THIS year? lol

I'm not going to prepare for another doomsday.

Breaking???

Didn't this 'break' back in september?

A little late to the show are we?

well, i think they'd say 'job done' then, eh?