NASA Predicts Comet ISON Is Still Dead ~ But The Evidence Is Far From Conclusive

POLL: What Will Hubble Find?
Nothing
Dusty Remains (No Fragments)
Dusty Remains and Some Fragments
A Considerably Sized Nucleus Still Intact
Whatever They Tell Us Will Be A Lie
ET Mothership
A Planet Sized Comet
Comet ISON is Dead...Without a Trace
They Will Need More Time To Try And Determine It's Location
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"On December 18, 2013, the Hubble Space Telescope tried to observe Comet ISON one last time. As many people expected, there is no evidence of Comet ISON in these images..."

..."There was some uncertainty in where Hubble should point to recover the comet"...

..."According to astronomer Hal Weaver, who devised Hubble's strategy, there were two likely locations of the comet, predictions based on previous positions measured when the comet was still visible".

..."Dr. Weaver also estimates that the faintest objects Hubble could see in these images would be about 25th magnitude"..."This means that Hubble could have seen comet fragments larger than about 500 feet (160 meters) in diameter."

..."We can't completely rule out the possibility that something is left of the comet.

"After all, it was seen after its passage close to the Sun, but disappeared not long after."

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"This material would still exist, but is likely very diffuse gas, dust, and very small pieces spread over an extremely large area." (500 feet very small pieces?)



...This is far from conclusive for me....






The search results will be posted in the "ISON Blog" on the Hubble website on Friday - [link to hubblesite.org] …


"We had hoped to post our Hubble #ISON search results to ISONblog today. Will do it Friday" [link to twitter.com (secure)]

Last Edited by Smashed~4~Dooom on 12/21/2013 12:17 PM