Subj : Solar weather/sungrazing comet
To   : Roger Nelson
From : Damon A. Getsman
Date : Tue Feb 24 2015 16:48:11

  Re:  Weather
  By: Roger Nelson to All on Mon Feb 23 2015 22:15:37

 RN> Astronomers are scratching their heads over an unusual comet that is
 RN> passing by the sun.  The icy visitor to the inner solar system does not
 RN> belong to any known family of sungrazing comets, and it appeared to be
 RN> doomed as it made its plunge toward the sun on Feb. 19th.  Instead of
 RN> disintegrating, however, the comet has emerged apparently intact, and
 RN> could become a target for telescopes on Earth when it emerges from the
 RN> sun's glare in the weeks ahead. Images and updates may be found on
 RN> http://spaceweather.com. 

  If that's from the 20th, I'm guessing that it's the same one that I saw on
erm...  SOHO, maybe?  Where they had a time lapse of it coming from the solar
NE quadrant and then looping around behind to shoot towards the satellite in a
much more equatorial planar SW trajectory...
  That is pretty weird...  I would've thought the coronal hole facing that way,
with the ramped up solar wind and recent million mile+ plasma filament with a
'stone age' shot that [luckily?] went in the opposite trajectory from earth
would've toasted that sucker...
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