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News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 62876
5/2/2006 5:48 AM
Report abusive post | News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann.
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I received an email today regarding comet Schwassmann-Wachmann from a friend who is a computer analyst at NASA saying 2 of the comet's fragments have been labeled as probable strikes and 8 labeled as near misses.
He went on to say that the comet and it's fragments are changing too rapidly and definite strike zones can't be calculated. In other words we won't know where they will hit until they are right on top of us. He made this part crystal clear,these fragments could break apart at any time and due to the reduced size burn up in the atmosphere, but, and there is always a but,they could break apart and not burn up causing multiple small strikes.
I was told to prepare for the worst and hope for the best because there isn't any plan in place to warn the public. He also said preparations have been made to evacuate the ISS (International Space Station) if a situation arises. We could see an evacuation anyway so we'll have to wait and see.
I'm waiting for a reply to my reply so I'll fill you in as more details become available. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88256
5/2/2006 5:50 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88245
5/2/2006 5:51 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
Thnks for the info. Did he give an ETA .. possible impact zone? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88239
5/2/2006 5:51 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
there are only so many launch windows for an ISS rescue mission (weather permiting) so they had better hurry if there is any truth to this.
Just paste the email contents here exluding any references to names. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88257
5/2/2006 5:54 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88256
5/2/2006 5:57 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
white house required taiwan's president postponing visit to central amrica. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88239
5/2/2006 5:58 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
Intel sats shifting orbital paramters. hmmmm |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88261
5/2/2006 6:00 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
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deepend 
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88239
5/2/2006 6:03 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
not to mention 8000+ satelites orbiting around us |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 38610
5/2/2006 6:07 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
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User ID: 85758
5/2/2006 6:22 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
How come these guys never cut and paste a copy of the actuall email message they recieved.. 
Put'er up or face the Flag son..  |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82757
5/2/2006 6:22 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
It makes a good story. but it's probably BS. There's no point in worrying about this at all. So if they decide to evac the ISS, that would probably be confirmation that someone is at least very worried it being much closer. Then we could all chuckle over whatever excuse they use to justify it and try to deflect attention away from any relation to the comet. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 744
5/2/2006 6:25 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
OP This is not funny you better not be giving us a load of crap. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 62398
5/2/2006 6:28 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
Haven't you got zits to squeeze OP? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88239
5/2/2006 6:29 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
I'm skeptical about OP's story as the email contents where not posted. An email like this would be a general broadcast to multiple people so disclosing the contents would be safe.
Why would the contents not be pasted? Probably BS.
Also why post and run without respondng to anyone, the OP must either be real and not looking for any attention and more worried about being caught or to embarssed to answer pertinant questions. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82757
5/2/2006 6:36 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
It's time to re-locate to a designated safe zone if you have not already done so...
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88268
5/2/2006 6:50 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
Date Released: Saturday, April 29, 2006
Source: Space Telescope Science Institute
Video filesOriginal Release
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is providing astronomers with extraordinary views of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it disintegrates before our eyes. Recent Hubble images have uncovered many more fragments than have been reported by ground-based observers. These observations provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the demise of a comet nucleus.
Amateur and professional astronomers around the world have been tracking the spectacular disintegration of 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 for years. As it plummets towards a close encounter with the Sun, swinging round the Sun on 7 June and heading away to begin another loop round the Solar System, the comet will pass the Earth on 12 May, at a distance of 11.7 million kilometres, or 30 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
The comet currently comprises a chain of over 33 separate fragments, named alphabetically, and stretching across several degrees on the sky (the Sun and Moon each have an apparent diameter of about 1/2 a degree). Ground-based observers have noted dramatic brightening events associated with some of the fragments indicating that they are continuing to break up and that some may disappear altogether.
Hubble caught two of the fragments, B and G, shortly after major outbursts in activity. The resulting images reveal that an amazing process of hierarchical destruction is taking place, in which the larger fragments are continuing to break up into smaller chunks. Several dozen "mini-fragments" are to be found trailing behind each main fragment, probably associated with the ejection of house-sized chunks of surface material that can only be detected in these very high-resolution Hubble images.
Sequential Hubble images of the B fragment, taken a few days apart, suggest that the chunks are pushed down the tail by outgassing from the icy, sunward-facing surfaces of the chunks, much like space-walking astronauts are propelled by their jetpacks. The smaller chunks have the lowest mass, and so are accelerated away from the parent nucleus faster than the larger chunks. Some of the chunks seem to dissipate completely over the course of several days.
One of the European team members, Philippe Lamy from Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France, says "When we observed the comet in late 2001 we concluded that many small, by then invisible, fragments had to be created by fragmentation to account for the missing mass. The new Hubble observations beautifully confirm and illustrate our past findings."
Cometary nuclei are deep-frozen relics of the early Solar System, consisting of porous and fragile mixes of dust and ices. They can be broken up by many different mechanisms: be ripped apart by gravitational tidal forces when they pass near large bodies (for example, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was torn to pieces when it skirted near Jupiter in 1992, before plunging into Jupiter's atmosphere two years later), fly apart as the nucleus rotates rapidly, crumble under thermal stresses as they pass near the Sun, or pop apart explosively like corks from champagne bottles as trapped volatile gases burst out.
"Catastrophic breakups may be the ultimate fate of most comets," says planetary astronomer Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who led the international team that made the recent Hubble observations and who used Hubble previously to study the fragmentations of comets Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993-1994, Hyakutake in 1996, and 1999 S4 (LINEAR) in 2000. Analysis of the new Hubble data, and data taken by other observatories as the comet approaches the Earth and Sun, may reveal which of these breakup mechanisms are contributing to the disintegration of 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3.
German astronomers Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann discovered this comet during a photographic search for asteroids in 1930, when the comet passed within 9.3 million kilometres of the Earth (only 24 times the Earth-Moon distance). The comet orbits the Sun every 5.4 years, but it was not seen again until 1979. The comet was missed again in 1985 but has been observed at every return since then.
During the autumn of 1995, the comet had a huge outburst in activity and shortly afterwards four separate nuclei were identified and labelled "A", "B", "C", and "D", with "C" being the largest and the presumed principal remnant of the original nucleus. Only the C and B fragments were definitively observed during the next return, possibly because of the poor geometry of the 2000-2001 apparition. The much better observing circumstances during this year's return may be partly responsible for the detection of so many new fragments, but it is also likely that the disintegration of the comet is now accelerating. Whether any of the many fragments will survive the trip around the Sun remains to be seen.
[link to www.spaceref.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 74065
5/2/2006 6:57 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
85758, that's a very good point.
Why not just cut n paste the e-mail, OP?
I imagine OP is now ferociously writing a fake e-mail from NASA. |
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Wee Man
User ID: 2480
5/2/2006 7:01 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
I thought I'd just copy and paste an email I received only 17 inutes ago..........
===========I've deleted names too=========
----- Original Message -----
From: "xxxx xxxxx" <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "xxx xxx" <xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: GrEat nEwS
> Hi xxx,
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> Viagra now $5 for 12
> <click to continue>
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> to stop receiving these emails click
> here <stop it you dirty bastard>
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> Regards
> xxxxxx
> *************************************** |
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Thermo Man
User ID: 62268
5/2/2006 7:09 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
op's User ID: 62876
number of posts since he started the thread (0)
so........................ hmmmmm
ah
hey at least i'm not blowing a whistle |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 87103
5/2/2006 7:16 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
These people are all the same.
They post the same, they act the same!
You would think they could be a LITTLE bit more creative!
I heard it from a friend in the military, I heard it from a neighbor who works for the government, I know a friend of a friend who works at NASA!
It's all bullshit period. NOTHING is going to hit the earth.
Let's see proof, if not shut up with your fear mongering! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82757
5/2/2006 7:19 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
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Subject: 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann imminent danger
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I regret to inform you that the earth is doomed. Comet impact is imminent. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82757
5/2/2006 7:21 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
oh goddammit! that was going to be funny too! I can't even pull off a joke right... oh well fucking aye. I suck at telling jokes. always have.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 87918
5/2/2006 7:24 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
All the best stories break first at GLP
They might not be true, but they're the best stories. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 88268
5/2/2006 7:26 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
"there are only so many launch windows for an ISS rescue mission (weather permiting) so they had better hurry if there is any truth to this."
Good point, AC and very telling as to the validity of ops post. If the ISS were going to be evacuated, that mission would have begun asap. This casts a BS cloud over ops post.
Unless the mission is being done in secret. |
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Merkaba
User ID: 82839
5/2/2006 7:33 AM
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." -- J. Edgar Hoover |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 8320
5/2/2006 7:37 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
Why care about rescuing a handful of astronauts from orbit? If there really is an incoming impact, then the millions on the surface that will die makes an ISS rescue pointless. With half of humanity wiped out, who gives a rats ass about the ISS crew? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 82757
5/2/2006 7:47 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
or better yet, let them die in orbit, don't rescue them because it would raise suspicions and possibly panic on the surface...
but anyways, i've always heard that ISS has an escape pod, so if there was some sort of emergency they could abandon the station and get back to earth. |
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Anonymous Brave
User ID: 5998
5/2/2006 7:52 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
There's a reboost planed for the ISS on may the 4th ... so, i think no one's leaving..
AB |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 77104
5/2/2006 8:23 AM | | Re: News about comet Schwassmann-Wachmann. | Quote |
wait and watch, i don't think anyone knows for sure.
there will be impacts, just how big!!!
one thing you can count on, not a word of truth will come out of NASA. |
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