Hello everyone. UPDATE

I have taken new images of the space where comet Elenin should be. I took them on the 8th, 10th, and 11th. All the images need more looking into. The images on the 10th might have been affected by something known as RBI, which is a ghost image showing up on the first saved CCD camera file.

That means it looks like something is there but someone told me it's not because of this issue.

I took 50 images this morning. 20 with GRAS-004 and 30 with GRAS-011.

Anyone who wants to receive an email with the 20 small jpg preview files I have from GRAS-004 is welcome to receive an email from me if I know where to send it. My email is awewriter at gmail.

I will take requests today.

Look at them and help me out. I hardly have time to look at the images I take.

The email I will send will be chuck filled with cools bits of GRAS info, the viewing conditions and then the 20 preview jpegs attached in the same email.

So... The first nights' imaging on the 8th I used the GRAS-011 set the exposure for 300 seconds and I couldn't see anything in them (They still need more review time though honestly.)

The next night I take a series with the GRAS-004 and I see something ("Two Pieces") moving over the four image series but it was told to me, "By Leonid Elenin" that it is this RBI ghost.

Today I haven't had a chance to look but I have 50 new images.


I was thinking today.... "What if it slowed down?" "Do I need to insert these coordinates tomorrow and then next day to to see if it shows up later?"

It's not a fun or easy job, comet hunting, but I'm going to try to finish the story anyways.

Have a good afternoon,

Francis

Couldn't the orbital dynamics be affected if the comet broke up, since the pieces would have less inertia and the suns gravity would have a greater effect on the smaller pieces, which could be mostly a mass of dust, especially after perihelion while the mass is escaping the suns pull? I know a comet close approach to a planet can change it's orbital trajectory why not the sun if the mass of the comet has changed? Smaller pieces and dust wouldn't act the same as the collective mass in whole to extreme gravitational influences, like the sun.

Originally posted by Illustronic
Couldn't the orbital dynamics be affected if the comet broke up, since the pieces would have less inertia and the suns gravity would have a greater effect on the smaller pieces, which could be mostly a mass of dust, especially after perihelion while the mass is escaping the suns pull?

Actually no, this seems to be a common misperception. The intertia of the pieces is still the same as the whole original comet. The inertia hasn't decreased, as a sum total of the pieces it remains the same. Some come away from the breakup with a little more, some a little less, but taken together they have the same net inertia as the original. The difference in the velocity between each is rather small, especially compared to the total velocity it has relative to the sun right now, thus it appears to elongate over time as the pieces gradually spread out along the orbit. The sun pulls on all objects at a given distance with equal force, just as a hammer and a feather will hit the moon's surface at the same time if dropped from an equal height. The smallest bits, dust, have very little mass and that means the solar wind has a greater influence (gravity's influence is constant) which is why comets develop tails. Those tails form on the comet-sun line, and the tail of the comet does not intersect our orbit because it was much too far away at the time that it crossed the ecliptic plane.

Thanks guys for the detailed explanations.

I was one on the side of a breakup would not change the progressive trajectory of elenin but now I have greater insight on why. I seemed to have drifted from the stance when I considered very fine particles and forgot a bit about the science. I'm better now, I'll be OK.

ELE-nin was blasted with a CME prior to the "disappearance", which cannot be dismissed as a passing wind! That could slow something down!

I cannot wait to get confirmation that ELE-nin is still with us!

Firstly, he uses rent-a-scopes, and that observatory would do. I don't believe you know his precise location, as I do not, and therefore you cannot make a judgement based on that. You are also over 30 days late! It's just a cloud of dust now.

The purpose of this thread was to provide people with evidence that was contradicting other evidence around the same date.

As for your last comment, What the heck man? Caps lock stuck or something?