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[Joe King]

Let us just say the coma is elongating then. The rest is just speculation bias towards incorrect theoretical understanding of the situation. Disinformation.

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?

Again, is there a problem if it breaks up? You come across as not liking the idea that it might be breaking up.

[keehah]

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?

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.

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

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.

[Joe King]

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.

[keehah]

Who's being emotional?

You asked...."What disintegration? Why is this claim made?"...

My shit was scientific rigor.

[vacuum]

So is everything still speculation at this point?

[Joe King]

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.

[Horn]

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[keehah]

So is everything still speculation at this point?

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).

[Nomoss]

So what's up with this thing?
Is it or is it not?

[Serpo]