New Comet

[n2doc]

DISINTEGRATING COMET: A bright comet discovered by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft is swinging by the sun today and apparently disintegrating. Click on the image to set the scene in motion:

It will be interesting to see if a disembodied tail emerges from behind the coronagraph's occulting disk in the hours ahead.

This kamikaze comet is probably a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family. Named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail, Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 years ago. Several of these fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate every day. Most are too small to see. Today's fragment is a big exception.

Credit: The comet was found on Jan. 2nd by Australian amateur astronomer Alan Watson, who was inspecting images obtained by STEREO-A's Heliospheric Imager on Dec. 30, 2009.

http://spaceweather.com/

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

1. Remember that comet back in 2003?

Electric.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Did that solar flare really alter the trajectory of this comet as

Nassim Haramein states or was that some fancy photoshopping??

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

3. I recall it was ripped apart as it passed the sun. Maybe I remember wrong.

I was just blown away with the imagery of it. I used to be a regular viewer of

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback67.html

Kents deceased now, but his stuff is still out there, in Cyberspace.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Kent looked at EVERYTHING and that's a good thing... this is

the comet I was concerned with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_FE6hOaqk&NR=1

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

5. Thank you for the link, see I was wrong. There was a comet I

do recall getting ripped apart, oh well.

I do miss Kent, I had such fun surfing his site.

[nashville_brook]

6. wow -- i've not thought about Kent/CSO in a long time

thanks for the reminder.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

7. I still keep him bookmarked.

He was so curious about so very much. He was a good person, and I'm happy to have crossed his cyberspace path a time or two.

[jus_the_facts]

8. I read a lot on his site... so much speculation and *sluething*....

...was VERY entertaining.

Here's a gif of this comet from spaceweather.com which is right up ol' Emperor Kenton's alley. May he rest in peace. :)

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