Object near the Sun, seems to be heading toward the Sun

reply to post by Phage

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Additionally if you Zoom into the TWO objects they both appear to have separate Centres.....like Two Stars.....spooky...

Can someone tell me where mercury is on this soho image it cannot be the one to the right or the one above because they are moving to the right away from the sun it should be visible on hear by now shouldn't it.sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

As of the last picture...it looks like 2 plasma shots, from the movie "Independence Day". I won't go to sleep, here, in Hungary till I don't see what has happened. It's very spooky, indeed!

reply to post by light_sound

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Whoa - looks like things are getting more exciting and intriquing!! It sure does have 2 very bright individual light source spots!! Besides that - it seems to have it's own flames and trail of smoke coming off of it.

If this object was going to hit the sun, it probably would have shown up in the "ahead" satellite photos by now. Also, the fact that it sometimes seems to have a "Z" shape may be because the light source is "between" pixels and leaves a distorting effect, but that is just a guess.

When this thread started, I didn't really know what to make of it, but after reviewing the photos and educating myself over the last couple of days, I believe it is just Mercury. My thanks to Phage for posting reasoned and patient comments and replies, as opposed to the cheap condescending insults that some people rely on.

Hey - things just got EVEN MORE INTERESTING

Check this out

spaceflight.nasa.gov...

reply to post by questioningall

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I said on page 15 it looks like two objects if it's one or two i just do not know.

reply to post by questioningall

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Do you know how often they close for maintainance, and also how long they generally stay closed for?

So, this object, if it's not Mercury, is supposed to hit the sun at 1 am EDT [5 am GMT]? Now, that's gotta be either a big object or highly resistant to heat because, from what I remember about the sun, pretty much everything vaporizes in the corona before it gets close to the sun's surface.

Sorry to come into this thread late and ask such a question, but... could someone link the picture (the links in the OP are broken, for me at least) and tell me where to look in that particular picture please?

Theres nothing on soho..... please somone pointing out where this crap is at. I see particularly one person posting images i cant find.

latest pic




[edit on 3-7-2009 by questioningall]

They have video of comets hitting the sun, pretty much does nothing to the sun.

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov...

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reply to post by Wertdagf

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Mercury is not in the field of view of SOHO. SOHO is between the Earth and the Sun. The source of the images, STEREO B, is very far from SOHO and has a very different point of view.
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

Here is the source for today's STEREO B images. You should be able to figure out how to find earlier images:
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

oops wrong directory..fixed it.

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Exactly m8, lol. Thanx for that info tho, i will remember that in the future!

reply to post by light_sound

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thats definately not a planet, it aint round for a start, my personal opinion is that its an asteroid/comet. Just from the way it is tumbling, but then again the pictures that show it as 2 objects gets me thinking again, could it be just breaking up as it approaches the suns corona???

reply to post by GezinhoKiko

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Yep Totally Agree,

Further Update:

Definitely Looks Like TWO unless someone can disprove this...if they can't most probably Comets but again, if they are indeed Comets....they must be huge!

stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

could someone please tell me what time frame the pictures are? i.e america, uk, that sort of thing. I am in the UK so if someone knows what time these pictures are taken in the UK i would realy appreciate it thanks.

reply to post by GezinhoKiko

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The timestamp on the images is UTC (GMT)

can't comets break in half as they near the sun?

Yes, they can.