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The Truth About Comet Ison (video)

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Sky and Telescope - 9/24/13

 

Published on Sep 16, 2013

The most recent observations indicate Comet ISON is on track to hopefully (but not definitely) reach naked-eye visibility in December 2013's pre-dawn sky. S&T Senior Editor Alan MacRobert explains just why it's so tricky to predict how bright ISON will be, and previews what you'll need to know to spot it as it approaches the Sun for its close encounter.

Lazarus Comets Return to Life

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Ras.org.uk- 8/6/13

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A team of astronomers from the University of Anitoquia, Medellin, Colombia, have discovered a graveyard of comets. The researchers, led by Anitoquia astronomer Prof. Ignacio Ferrin, describe how some of these objects, inactive for millions of years, have returned to life leading them to name the group the 'Lazarus comets'. The team publish their results in the Oxford University Press journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Comets are amongst the smallest objects in the Solar System, typically a few km across and composed of a mixture of rock and ices. If they come close to the Sun, then some of the ices turn to gas, before being swept back by the light of the Sun and the solar wind to form a characteristic tail of gas and dust.

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Perseid fireballs are already arriving!

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Earthsky.org, 8/3/13

Spaceweather.com explained ths diagram:

Green lines illustrate the paths of Perseid meteoroids, traveling in space. All six intersect Earth (the blue dot). The orbit of Comet Swift-Tuttle is the purple line. An inset shows one of the fireballs shining almost as brightly as the moon.

What are Perseid fireballs? New research by NASA scientists has revealed them. Using a network of meteor cameras distributed across the southern USA, Cooke’s team has been tracking fireball activity since 2008, and they have built up a database of hundreds of events to analyze. The data point to the Perseids as the ‘fireball champion’ of annual meteor showers.

More Tiny Comets Coming, Including The Comet Dust Of November

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Beforeitsnews.com- 5/24/13, Steve Rother

 

 

 

More Tiny Comets Coming, Including The Comet Dust Of November

Hi Friends…. a profound message from GF channeler Mike Quinsey who passed it on from The Group channeler Steve Rother, that highlights the pyramids, and some of the comet activity we are experiencing…. as usual keep an open mind and heart so that the light gets in. 

I resonate with the comment that no one is from earth… this would be true because no one came from the physical plane…. we all have spiritual origins, that we are in a process of remembering… the magnetics of the planet decrease, thus making ‘room’ if you will for our spiritual remembrance…

These comets may be bringing new life, so that’s reason to celebrate… isn’t it a wonderful thing for attitudes towards life to become more aware… more intune with the universe?

2013: the year of the comet – new comet discovery announced

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The Extinction Protocol, 3/28/13

 

 

April 28, 2013 – SPACE – Comet TENAGRA: Cbet nr. 3478, issued on 2013, April 19, announces the discovery of a apparently asteroidal object (discovery magnitude ~19.6) by M. Schwartz and P. R. Holvorcem on CCD images obtained with the Tenagra II 0.41-m f/3.75 astrograph located near Nogales, AZ, U.S.A. After posting on the Minor Planet Center’s NEOCP webpage, this apparently asteroidal object has been found to show cometary features by our team. Stacking of 12 R-filtered exposures, 50-sec each, obtained remotely from Haleakala-Faulkes Telescope North on 2013, April 18.4, through a 2.0-m f/10.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD (operated by LCOGT), shows that this object is a comet: compact coma about 5” in diameter elongated toward PA 110. The new comet has been designated COMET C/2013 G9 (TENAGRA).  –Astro Watch

 

Was the Repeating Passage of Halley’s Comet Known of in Ancient Times?

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Universe today-4/6/13, David Dickenson

 

Comet P/Halley as seen on its last inner solar system passage on March 8th, 1986. (Credit: W. Liller/NASA GSFC/ International Halley Watch Large Scale Phenomena Network).

 

An interesting and largely unknown tale of ancient astronomy recently came our way while reading author and astrophysicist Mario Livio’s blog. The story involves the passage of the most famous of all comets.  

It’s fascinating to consider ancient knowledge of the skies. While our knowledge of ancient astronomy is often sparse, we know that cultures lived and perished by carefully monitoring the passage of the heavens.  A heliacal rising of Sirius might coincide with the impending flooding of the life-giving waters of the Nile, or the tracking of the solstices and equinoxes might mark the start of the seasons.

What’s Up for March 2013: Comets and Other Phenomena

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The Watchers-2/26/13, Chilimanjaro

 

The first of the year's two potential bright comets is visible for those who can see low on the western horizon and find out which spacecraft is on a 10-yr mission to catch up with another comet.

 

 

The first of this year’s two potential bright comets is visible for those who can see low on the western horizon and find out which spacecraft is on a 10-year mission to catch up with another comet. - See more at: http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/02/28/whats-up-for-march-2013/#sthash.ZHg49oLj.dpuf

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