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Its had my curiousity piqued ever since the start of this event

Java55 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:27:52 -0500

I'm glad the voyage of NASA's Pluto bound New Horizons spacecraft has already passed through the Jupiter system earlier this year well before any of this took place.

Recap, etc.

Java55 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:13:20 -0500

Here's that link from the other thread:

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/holmes.html

...it seems they failed to mention the countless meteoroids and asteroids this comet's orbit must intercept... if it is even remotely possibly it can and will happen.

Here's the other link from that disappearing thread...

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=24041

"Ground-based images of Comet Holmes show a large, spherically symmetrical cloud of dust that is offset from the nucleus"...

If you ask me, I believe a glancing collision took place between this comet and a small asteroid composed of loosely bound rubble, sands, and fine dusts. Afterall, if they are beginning to witness a tail forming from the comet itself, then why not for this offsetting and expanding ejecta field too? Maybe its composed of non-photoionizable materials? I hope someone has had the forethought to start calculating the orbits of both the offsetting ejecta field as well as the comet.

Nice wheels plus

RickW — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:48:48 -0500

Still lookin for the comet. Lots of thin clouds tonight, thicker last night. Mars looks good. No polaris even but I know where it should be. Is it visible all night? The article said right after sundown was best but according to the chart I figured it should be easy to find anytime it's dark. Looked at telescopes in store today, finally resisted the impulse though.

and the implications for the future are....

plusaf — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:07:38 -0500

are what, for a comet that orbits between Mars and Jupiter, per wikipedia?

pretty thinkable, eh, or is it due for an orbital perturbation? [not a dirty word...]

plusaf
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They have to "black-out"

RickW — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:48:55 -0500

They have to "black-out" comet news west of the Mississippi.

Hey bud!

Hmmm...

Java55 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:37:12 -0500

Virtually no mention (except perhaps a brief passage in the Charlotte Observer on November 3rd) of comet 17P/Holmes (and its possible implications for the future) in the mass media is a curiousity to me... Maybe the possibilities are just too 'unthinkable'?

I'm gonna have to go with "No".

RickW — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:25:33 -0500

This is the standard way to sell newspapers and it's been going on since Gutenberg invented the first copier. No one is quite sure how it works on the web, but we will find out. Personally, I don't think the world could possibly be any different than it is. Tomorrow it will be a little different but no more so than it should be. Your poast is now on the active list. Your welcome. Oh, yea, and try to relax a little!!!

haven't we had enough "exciting" headlines and reporting, yet?

plusaf — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:27:07 -0500

so, what's the big, exciting news today? gas prices? mortgage defaults? water shortages? global warming?

what i find fascinating is that, of all the wide range of things i read, most of the NON-public-media reports consistently show much lower levels of worry and "excitement" about these "critical" issues "facing all of us today."

reports from Jason Kelly [ http://www.jasonkelly.com/ ] for example, repeatedly tell me that the flaming headlines about ups and downs in financial reports and economic indicators are overblown. the reality of these indicators is so far removed from our real life, it's like watching the speedometer on your car, and as it goes from 0 to 35, you panic because it's obviously going to go to 150 in a few more minutes and kill lots of innocent pedestrians and other motorists! ...... except it isn't... you're going to take your foot off the gas long before that.

so, what's the big, exciting news today? gas prices? mortgage defaults? water shortages? global warming? what i find fascinating is that, of all the wide…