Subj : Solar weather/sungrazing comet
To   : Damon A. Getsman
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Tue Feb 24 2015 22:44:50

On Tue Feb-24-2015 16:48, Damon A. Getsman (1:340/200) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 DAG>   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. 

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

I would have posted that one on arrival. but my email client chose to put it in 
the Spam folder and I just noticed it yesterday.  Also, it seems to me we had a 
similar thing happen a few years ago when a comet was in our Soolar System and 
was expected to burn up as it got close to the Sun, but it didn't, so maybe 
this current one came from outside like the article hinted.


Regards,

Roger 
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