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Originally posted by jetxnet
Comets cannot hit the Sun as they would long burn up before reaching the Sun. Comets are made of Iron, Ice and Dust. The Iron core is very small.
This is why the comet has a "tail". The tail is the melting of the Comet in the form of a long dust and water trail.
Metorites are different than Comets in that they are not composed of Ice. They are large broken off peices of Planetary debris.
. Within a matter of seconds the comet, larger than the Earth, was destroyed. The immense power of the Sun vaporized the comet as an elephant destroys an ant. The debris scattered for millions of miles in the Sun's atmosphere
Originally posted by jetxnet
Thanks Johnny, that makes sense but is what I was thinking too, it falls into the Sun and just gets burned up right away.
Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous
......the comet was at least a million kilometers above the surface of the sun at the time and there is no known mechanism for a comet to trigger such a magnetic explosion. Maybe some of you have an idea why the Sun reacted as it did without the Comet actually hitting it.
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Originally posted by SystemiK
Come to think of it, you might want to see if you could get David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill on your show sometime.....that would be an outstanding interview!
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
i have never seen/heard the show, Johnny. but if you get wallace thornhill on there, you can be guaranteed that I would tune in.
Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous
We'll look into possibly getting him..
[edit on 5/26/2008 by JohnnyAnonymous]
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One of the reasons why I've always been so interested in Solar events is that I've wondered if our Universe is liken to one large evolving living organism. What happens over there (Johnny points to a spot billion of light years away)... will affect the universe in some way or another either (perhaps billions of years later) in a minuscule change of events or in a devastating cascade that keeps building momentum.
What happens over there (Johnny points to a spot billion of light years away)... will affect the universe in some way or another either (perhaps billions of years later) in a minuscule change of events or in a devastating cascade that keeps building momentum.
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