Newfound Comet Could Look Spectacular in 2013

[aldrin89]

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A newly discovered comet has the potential to put on a dazzling celestial display late next year, when it will be so bright you may be able to see it briefly in the daytime sky.
The discovery of the object named Comet ISON was announced Monday (Sept. 24) by Russians Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok, who detected it in photographs taken three days earlier using a 15.7-inch (0.4-meter)reflecting telescope of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), near Kislovodsk. The new comet is officially known as C/2012 S1.
When first sighted, Comet ISON was 625 million miles (1 billion kilometers) from Earth and 584 million miles (939 million km) from the sun, in the dim constellation of Cancer. It was shining at magnitude 18.8 on the reverse scale used by astronomers to measure the brightness of sky objects (the lower the number, the brighter the object). That makes the comet currently about 100,000 times fainter than the dimmest star that can be seen with the unaided eye.

But at its perihelion (its closest point to the sun), due on Nov. 28, 2013, the comet will come within 800,000 miles (1.2 million km) of the sun’s surface and could evolve into a dazzling object ― possibly bright enough to be visible for a short time in broad daylight.

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[takas bahay]

atang ta ani........once in a life time experience

[rodsky]

Calculated parameters of this comet and plotted it into my SNPRO...

https://www.facebook.com/v/10151076177067654



-RODION

[aldrin89]

Calculated parameters of this comet and plotted it into my SNPRO...

https://www.facebook.com/v/10151076177067654



-RODION

WOW! nice Rodz! is it true that it would reach -7 magnitude?

[shakina_blood_of_royal]

wow amazing

[shakina_blood_of_royal]

ganahan jud ku about sa mga galaxy universe og uban pa

[shakina_blood_of_royal]

nice thread knowledgeable au

[shakina_blood_of_royal]

how I wish makaara pod ku sa outer space

[shakina_blood_of_royal]

I love Science<3

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^ wow 5 five post! LOL

unsay estimated month ani?