This is an ex-comet. NASA detects, tracks and characterizes asteroids and comets passing relatively close to Earth using both ground- and space-based telescopes. The Near-Earth Object Observations Program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes the physical nature of a subset of them, and predicts their paths to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.
There are no known credible threats to date. There's a problem with your browser or settings. Amnesia is the cause of your infinite search in search of yourself. So inflicted by amnesia you search even the dust of your own universe, with hope of a clue to who you are.
The God lost. Soon you will find the beginning and walk eternity divided until you learn to love yourself as one, only that will replace your infliction. Though you may never remember your true greatness, at least you can find dignity. Kelly, Thanks for your excellent report on Comet Elenin. Too bad about Comet Elenin turning out to be a "dud" for visual observers.
We "real astronomers" will be continuing to follow Comet Garradd as the real showpiece for the next few months. It's truly sad to see such uneducated pseudoscientifically inclined individuals take pot shots at your credibility. Since there is speculation that the comet has broken up into pieces or evaporated which i cannot see happening. When the earth passes through the debri field wouldn't that indicate that a possibility that the earth may in the way of some of those broken up pieces?
I am just saying that it may not indicate that it would happen. And is the U. S government being honest in letting the public aware of of its current plans to hoodwink the public about all the deep earth tunnels and storage of suppies in these tunnels. The digging in colorado next to the airport? Salt mines in Utah. Norad underground facilities in other areas all over the country and yet we are not previ to it. I understand that in the forties and fifties the us had plenty of sites for missiles right in the communities we all live in yes they did that.
And no one knew about it because it wasn't our right to know about it just like this is. You state the the JPL website sometimes is not updated regularily. So what you are telling me is that with all the government taxpeayer funding that NASA receives, they cannot update a website as fast as some of these I guess you would say It's still there.
I don't know what you were looking at, but on the 2nd and 3rd, yup, still there indeed. What are you trying to prove? First Fire the person that said it broke up.. The gas is massive around the object Greetings to all out there I boldly suggest that visual astronomy would be potentially dull and boring if comets behaved precisely on cue, to some sort of pre-ordained script Humankind belongs to the Universe We astronomers should consider ourselves to be very privileged observers of the Universe, not the potentially arrogant masters of it.
Observe, measure, write it down, report, publish To read at this late date on a supposedly science-based website dealing with astronomy, that comets are made mostly of dirty ice cores along with other materials.. If that is still the model you base your other views and postings regarding comets and solar science then all I can say is no wonder every other headline about space these days starts out by saying " Scientists were suprised" Experts left scractching their heads" What an absolute waste of my sign up time.
So does that mean we all of a sudden believe absolutely everything TPTB are telling us, about everything? I think it's interesting to study the ancients and their astornomical knowledge and find nothing to laugh at within it. It amazes me that people are so sure nothing will ever happen to us in our lifetime. Where did this superiority complex come from? Well it happened in someone elses lifetime, so why not ours?
You don't have to be an idiot to get what's going on. Thanks for the update I feel so much more at ease. Especially since all the Hurricanes and Typoons and X-flare's from the sun have been increasing. I guess it is just coincidence and global warming. I also have not noticed any increase in earthquakes at the 37degreesN since "little elly" came into our solar sytem.
Thanks for update! I find so amazing how a comet that is so small, and generates no tail, can have such an overwhelming response that our entire news agency refuses to mention it all. What does this mean for civilization as we know it? What will this speeding icy bullet from outer space do to our planet? Nothing at all.
Elenin spotted the comet using a telescope in New Mexico remotely from his location in Lyubertsy, Russia. At that time it was about million kilometers million miles from Earth… in the time since it has closed the distance considerably, and is now around million km away. Elenin is a long-period comet, which means it has a rather large orbit around the Sun… it comes in from a vast distance, swings around the Sun and heads back out to the depths of the solar system — a round trip lasting over 10, years.
During its current trip it will pass by Earth on October 16, coming as close as 35 million km 22 million miles. Way too far for us to be affected by anything a comet has to offer. Especially a not-particularly-large comet like Elenin. Some of the doomy-gloomy internet sites have been mentioning the size of Elenin as being 80, km across.
And comets are not the most densely-packed objects out there. It will have an immeasurably miniscule influence on our planet. Not much else to say there. But the claims surrounding Elenin have gone much further toward the absurd. These stories are all just that — stories — and have not a shred of science to them, other than a heaping dose of science fiction. I like to use the word cosmophobia for this growing fear of astronomical objects and phenomena, which periodically runs amuck on the Internet.
Ironically, in pre-scientific times, comets were often thought to be harbingers of disaster, mostly because they seemed to arrive unpredictably — unlike the movements of the planets and stars, which could be tracked on a daily and yearly basis. It will not be changing direction between now and then, it will not exert any gravitational effect on Earth, its magnetic field is nonexistent and there are no Star Destroyers cruising in its wake.
After a short while, it will be headed back out again, and we will not see or hear from Elenin for thousands of years. Bought up by military, and hidden I assume. They had the concentrated tethered to a vertical guide wire, laser reflected of a mirror.
With only a burst of a few micro seconds of power the concentrator shot up the guy wire. The device would, according to the documentary work with or without atmosphere. This means that comet Elenin with the density of a icy dirtball with a nucleus smaller than average less than 10 km, a size less than average for a comet will need a massive but gentle push so as not to break up the icy dirtball. Stopping a moving object causes it to become a stationary object, since Elenin is moving still it was never stopped.
Also, does something have to be large in order to have a great density? Have scientists for a fact established its density?
So does anyone have facts that can establish one way or another its size or density? But the alignments with earthquakes are established, as far as I understand. Ignorance or cover-up or both? Amateur astronomer and comet discoverer Leonid Elenin lives near Moscow and is an accomplished optician who likes to observe asteroids and variable stars. Tenagra Observatories Moreover, it's traveling very near the ecliptic plane, and as it sweeps close to the Sun its sky location won't stray far from the ecliptic until mid-September, when the path arcs slowly northwestward through Leo.
That's a plus for skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere. Finally, because Comet Elenin passes between the Sun and Earth, there's a chance its dust tail might "light up" via forward-scattered light due to the large Sun-comet-Earth angle and put on a really good show. The last interloper to do this, Comet McNaught, dazzled southern skygazers in January I'll update this story once the calculated orbit settles down, so please check back for the latest details.
Wow- a Christmas Eve tease for a possible comet delight late next summer. May the orbit gods shine upon us earthlings! Log in to Reply. Thanks for the earley warning. I have been wanting to buy a telescope. Congratulations Leonid, and thank you for your perseverance.
Too bad countries can not work together as well as stargazers appear to do. Thanks to all! I hope what this comet will be bright. Perhaps, forward-scattering phenomena will be assist.
Above it says right now it appears that the comet's perihelion will occur well inside Earth's orbit, about 0.
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