4 Years After the First Comet Elenin, We Have a New Comet Elenin Found Using ISON! *And It Reaches its Closest Point to Earth TONIGHT!

i just wanted to bump a pinned thread!

What you talkin about Willis?

Yay! Another object to make the rounds on GLP.

Wonder what the spin is going to be on this one? Negriod space aliens, the 13th SET of Ra, North pole impact zone, and last but not least Mork.

When will The Gorn Hegemony attack?

Astro - Can you explain more? I clicked the link you provided but I am afraid I don't know jack about reading this type of data?

Cool! Good for him.

Can we all promise not to make 11,000 threads about how this is Nibiru, that it will hit earth, that is will cause everyone to die of the plague, that it is a spaceship, that it signals ascension to the fifth dimension....

please? Pretty please?

Going to bed sick of all the latest shit on GLP, night night.

More Asstro nonsense !

The same Russian guy found another comet using the same telescope?

How very true.

NO! You know the drill.

It's niburu, and it's gonna kill us all..

Well since its perihelion distance is about 1.81 AU it won't get particularly close to earth. It has an orbital period of about 15 years so its a short period comet hence the "P" designation. It's around magnitude 17~18 so it's far too dim to see by eye and needs a powerful telescope to detect it.

I directly observed Comet Pan Starrs Astro

I can assure you


It is real





ANd so is this one


awesome discovery and thanks for the latest and greatest from space!

Care to explain what you mean by that?

Yup. And at the same time of year as in 2010.

Leonid Elenin!!!!!


ELE

ELE

ELE


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LOL - P/2014 X1 Elenin

Let the woo-woo begin.

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New BPEarthwatch video in 5... 4... 3... 2... LOL

ELENIN


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Maximum brightness Doctor, and when?

Thank you for both responses! I get the correlation now.

Thanks Astro.

JPL Horizons currently predicts it reaches a maximum apparent brightness of about magnitude 17.25 on the evening of December 21st.

That date should not be confused with its closest approach to earth though. According to the initial orbit that's actually tonight, as it turns out. In 3 hours and 15 minutes give or take.

It will continue to brighten slightly over the next few days peaking on about the evening of December 21st because its still getting closer to the sun even as it starts to get farther from earth. Eventually the increasing distance from earth should win as the determining factor before it hits perihelion next month.

*Scratch that, I was looking at topocentric distance dictated by my location, my bad, its already passed the point of closest approach to earth

Last Edited by Astromut on 12/13/2014 08:36 PM

Lol, are you serious.... Bring on the conspiracies.

I'm Sirius serious, but it's seriously nowhere near as bright as Sirius.

I'm glad you posted first on this (at least from what I've seen) it's humorous watching what pops up with these things.