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Originally posted by azzllin
reply to post by MurderCityDevil
I apologise but i had to do something, plus im not the first to ever do this i saw one today where the first 7 posts where by the author
Originally posted by azzllin
..yes its there comet Holmes was a warning that if it is charged the wrong way its going to kill us all...
Originally posted by skyshow
Is Holmes that orange-ish object that around midnight or so is just west of the center of the sky, and then begins to set hours later to the West? It's not in the plain of the ecliptic, so it can't be a planet, yet if it's a comet, I would expect a tail or at least some fuzziness...anyone know what I'm looking at; perhaps it is the comet?
Originally posted by Mogget
17P/Holmes is a normal comet. It has nothing whatsoever to do with "the end of the world", or other nonsense of that kind. As for it being "electrically charged", and that this would be capable of changing its trajectory, answer me this........
Why have we never seen evidence of this "electrical perturbation theory" in the motions of comets ?
The trajectories of these objects are controlled exclusively by gravity until they approach the Sun closely enough to experience the rocket like thrusting effect of sublimating ices. They aren't being flung around by electrical forces, because if they were, astronomers would notice the errors in the calculated positions and velocities of the objects (based entirely on gravitational force equations) when they returned from the outer Solar System.