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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.
Originally posted by botiemaster
Why shouldn't it be that "big" ? Should it be a tiny dot? You have to remember, it's our perspective from SOHO. Those planets will give off the illusion that they are huge due to over exposed lighting. I doubt mr. PX would be anything more than a small point of light that seems motionless, not what you see here, if it infact exists which I doubt and is due in 2012 which I doubt. If you really want to go to the extreme, it's PX and it's been the very first planet all this time, because it's certainly revolving around the sun. Truth is if you're a regular viewer of SOHO, you know all too well what other planets will look like when you spot them for the hundredth time. Fairly easy to know the first time you see them when compared against the background of stars. This one here is Venus.
Originally posted by Nola213
I don't wanna derail the thread at all, but the Screen shot on the OP. Now if they are saying the comet as earth sized, how can that object makeing a B-line for the sun be Venus or Mercury? Even if it was Venus makeing a pass in front of the sun from our perspective it shouldn't be that big.
Originally posted by Nola213
Originally posted by botiemaster
Why shouldn't it be that "big" ? Should it be a tiny dot? Truth is if you're a regular viewer of SOHO, you know all too well what other planets will look like when you spot them for the hundredth time. Fairly easy to know the first time you see them when compared against the background of stars. This one here is Venus.
Originally posted by Nola213
how can that object makeing a B-line for the sun be Venus or Mercury?
Thanks for the reply. I'm not a planet XR'er. I was thinking Huge asteroid or something, not niribu(which frankly I don't believe exists, and we will see the year 2013, and beyond).
However with my limited knowledge of SOHO it is a frighteneing image to say the least. Especially when they are saying the "comet", tail and all(those are long) was Earth sized, it is dwarfed in comparison to the object on the right side.
But if you; being an avid viewer of/and knowlegable about SOHO, and the objects that frequently make thier way around the area, say it's nothing to worry about. I won't worry about it.
Thanks for replying to my post. My mind is somewhat at ease now.
Originally posted by SystemiK
Very interesting JA.
Actually, I might be able to point you in the right direction of a mechanism. If you take the Electric universe theory into account, it would not take much of a leap of imagination to explain such an occurrence. I'm still in the process of "getting my head around" this theory myself, but it seems to fill in many cracks in what gravitational theory struggles to explain.
Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous
So a Comet comes within a million kilometers to the SUN. The Sun reacts violently with a huge mass coronal discharge that bombards the earth disrupting satellites (Communication systems worldwide) not to mention were getting slammed by x-rays, gamma rays and neutrinos and who knows what ever else that we get slammed with.
Geez.. I feel like I need to put on some SPF 1000 sunblock just talking about it..
Johnny
Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous
Well that settles it.. I'm making it official.. were going to try and get him (Thornhill)...
We also inquired (after supplying him with the SOHO data) as to what [Robert Morningstar's] guesstimate of size for this comet might be. His answer was that it was larger than the earth in his opinion...!
Johnny
Originally posted by brdgerstmann
Could the sun's reaction be the result of an electrostatic attraction to the approaching body. I'm assuming that the molten iron on the surface of the sun would electrically be attracted to an iron core in the comet, yes, no?
Just a thought.
Originally posted by JohnnyAnonymous
My attention was drawn to what James McCanney had to say.
Originally posted by nexusmagazine
Originally posted by brdgerstmann
Could the sun's reaction be the result of an electrostatic attraction to the approaching body. I'm assuming that the molten iron on the surface of the sun would electrically be attracted to an iron core in the commet, yes, no?
Just a thought.
This is pretty much the thinking of the electric universe model, which also says comets are not so much ice/rocks etc, but more - 'charged' plasma.
Originally posted by nexusmagazineI also like the explanation for the zillions of craters on the moon, which some 'experts' have always maintained are not impact craters. The electric universe model suggests that the majority of the lunar 'craters' are the result of massive electical-type discharges - presumably between the moon and other charged bodies passing by. Interestingly - and apologies if I am repeating previously discussed material - the same cratering effect has been achieved in lab conditions using electrical discharges.
Duncan
Originally posted by Nola213
Again I think back to the big NASA announcement that was pulled, and never announced. I'm a bit worried.