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Related: About this forumThanksgiving day is THE big day for Comet ISON - will it survive it's trip around the sun? Pic....
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/comet-ison-solar-probe-sights-storm-coming-2D11663523
"Comet ISON is in solar probe's sights and a storm is coming!"
"Comet ISON popped into the very edge of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's field of view late Tuesday, and it looks as if it might be in for an early surprise: an encounter with a storm of electrically charged particles from the sun.
The interaction with the outburst, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, would take place a day before ISON makes its long-anticipated Thanksgiving Day swing around the sun. It's uncertain whether ISON will survive the next couple of days, but experts say a solar storm by itself shouldn't cause the comet's doom.
A coronal mass ejection would have "more of an effect on the tail," Karl Battams, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory who's part of the team for the NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign, told NBC News last week. On Tuesday, Battams said he was marveling over the interaction between ISON and the solar wind. If the CME vs. ISON clash shapes up the way it's looking, he'll have even more to marvel at.
ISON's appearance in an ultraviolet image from the sun-observing SOHO satellite's LASCO C3 detector sparked comment during Tuesday's Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session with Battams and other planetary scientists studying ISON. A Reddit user pointed out the picture and said "I am concerned about the solar event that has just taken place and will be ISON directed."
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IF ISON survives....we will all have something special to look for starting this weekend!
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Thanksgiving day is THE big day for Comet ISON - will it survive it's trip around the sun? Pic.... (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2013
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Comet ISON is still alive...and brightening dramatically. Today is the big day!
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2013
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neverforget
(9,436 posts)1. here's to hoping it survives!
Comets are cool.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Literally - a snowball's chance in hell!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)3. Comet ISON is still alive...and brightening dramatically. Today is the big day!
starroute
(12,977 posts)4. Here's the animated version of that
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NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)5. just amazing! thanks!