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So how would you explain its dimming and elongating at the one time in its orbit that it should be brightening and becoming more well-defined?Quote:
Originally Posted by keehah
Again, is there a problem if it breaks up? You come across as not liking the idea that it might be breaking up.
I thought I answered the issue if it breaks up quite clearly in my post above no? And post #43 tells what caused the dimming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe King
Are you a bot just programmed to ask questions? ;)
Quit being so emotional Joe, it is not that I don't like the idea of nucleus disintigration (in fact I quoted a good explanation for such events), its that we have seen no evidence (nothing pasted or linked in this thread anyway) of the nucleus disintigrating in this comet.
All we have are statement and image of a enlongated plasma coma (coma tails more) as the comet nears closest approach to the sun as would be expected without significant disintigration of the nucleus.
http://www.oarval.org/section3_15.htm
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The supposed nucleus of the comet is the bright centre of the coma.
The coma and the tails develop markedly as the comet gets closer to the Sun, with tail lengths sometimes growing as long as 100 million kilometres.
Who's being emotional?
You asked...."What disintegration? Why is this claim made?"....and I told you why they think it's coming apart. ie the coma shouldn't be dimming and elongating at this point.
Is there definitive proof that it's breaking up? No. However its observed characteristics say that it very well could be breaking up.
My shit was scientific rigor. ;DQuote:
Originally Posted by Joe King
So is everything still speculation at this point?
Yes.
However, by just observing it, one can see that something has changed about it.
In all my life I've always heard that comets tend to get brighter and more defined the closer they get to the Sun, not dimmer and stretched out.
So I'd say that it's certainly plausable that, to at least some degree, it may have broken apart. At this point, only time will tell.
Sashying in from outer space to meet first partners earth and sun was a bold move (see video for what could have been), but the system is just not all that charged about the little guy to amplify a tune we can see (or hear).Quote:
Originally Posted by vacuum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEG-1iYpgKU
So what's up with this thing?
Is it or is it not?