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Meteor

Hey -- just a long range alert -- clear your calendars in March & November of 2013....

now that we have survived the Mayan apocalypse....we have two potentially awesome events coming.........

Two separate comets have been spotted heading our way - one that will peak in intensity in March 2013 and one in November 2013... BOTH are expected to be spectacular - ending a 15 year drought in readily visible comets...since Hale-Bopp!

BOTH are far brighter so far even billions of miles away than any comets in many decades...thus it is entirely possible - but never a guarantee - that they could be once-in-a-millennium-type spectacles...

Comet PanSTARRS will arrive early in March and is currently predicted to peak at 10 times the brightness of the brightest star (Sirius)
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2011L4/2011L4.html

Comet ISON might be 10 times brighter yet and even be visible in daytime...
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/A-Dream-Comet-Heading-Our-Way-171521041.html

http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_21649181/two-possible-great-comets-coming-2013
 
tornado said:
Hey -- just a long range alert -- clear your calendars in March & November of 2013....

now that we have survived the Mayan apocalypse....we have two potentially awesome events coming.........

Two separate comets have been spotted heading our way - one that will peak in intensity in March 2013 and one in November 2013... BOTH are expected to be spectacular - ending a 15 year drought in readily visible comets...since Hale-Bopp!

BOTH are far brighter so far even billions of miles away than any comets in many decades...thus it is entirely possible - but never a guarantee - that they could be once-in-a-millennium-type spectacles...

Comet PanSTARRS will arrive early in March and is currently predicted to peak at 10 times the brightness of the brightest star (Sirius)
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2011L4/2011L4.html

Comet ISON might be 10 times brighter yet and even be visible in daytime...
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/A-Dream-Comet-Heading-Our-Way-171521041.html

http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_21649181/two-possible-great-comets-coming-2013
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Hey, thanks for the heads up tornado! I'll definitely keep an eye out for them.

Let's just hope we don't have more cults killing themselves in order to hitch a ride on these comets like those morons did when the Hale-Bopp comet came around!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)
 
tornado said:
...Comet PanSTARRS will arrive early in March and is currently predicted to peak at 10 times the brightness of the brightest star (Sirius)
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2011L4/2011L4.html..
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uh oh -- bad news for stargazers......

the comet PANSTARRS - which has been hyped since June of 2011 - as possibly a spectacularly bright comet- maybe as bright or brighter than the brightest star...


"it unfortunately isn’t living up to predictions.."

it isn't nearly as bright so far as had been hoped - and nobody knows for sure how much brighter it will get but it does continue to "inch" close to the sun for another month...
http://www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=32700ef0-11f7-4396-8a4a-db8eaa3c67aa



Meanwhile, an asteroid as large as the Civic Center will shoot by the earth on Feb. 15 missing by only 17,000 miles - roughly a little over TWO earth-diameters..
Should an asteroid of that diameter strike earth - depending on the angle, likelihood of breakup, and location - it would have more destructive power than the biggest nuclear weapon known.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50672151/ns/technology_and_science-space/
 
tornado said:
at approx 10:05PM I saw a large ball of flame with a long streaking tail shoot across the northern sky from the northwest towards the due north and disappear at about the extreme north horizon..

anyone else see it?? It was clearly a large meteor high up in the atmosphere flaming out...

within 10 minutes there were thousands of reports on twitter of people who saw the same event -- and they saw it in northern half of Iowa, upper half of Illinois, all over Wisconsin and in Michigan..

The people near Madison Wisconsin reported it to be more directly overhead while all the people further to the south of Madison saw it in the northern sky - so obviously all were seeing the same event.

We will probably read more about in the press..........
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wow - this event a couple years ago over southern Wisconsin that was seen in Illinois was just a small version of what happened over northern Russia yesterday...
..and lots of meteorite debris fell there -- accompanied by loud sonic booms...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-russia-meteorite-20130215,0,4465604.story

Of course a somewhat similar event happened in northern Russia a little over 100 year ago that was hundreds of times larger - theoretically caused by a comet glancing off the upper atmosphere...
http://www.universetoday.com/33367/1908-tunguska-event-caused-by-comet-new-research-says/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/s...rias-first-brush-with-falling-space.html?_r=0
 
tornado said:
Comet PanSTARRS will arrive early in March and is currently predicted to peak at 10 times the brightness of the brightest star (Sirius)
http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2011L4/2011L4.html..
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The comet PANSTARRS has arrived and there's bad news & good news...

the bad - it is nowhere near as bright nor as impressive as was predicted..

the good - it is still reportedly easily visible but only shortly after sundown when the sky is still a little light so it won't be impressive...

here are some tips to see it when the skies clear.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/weather_wisdom/2013/03/clear_skies_are_perfect_for_co.html


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Tonight is the first good evening to view this comet...it should be clear at sunset...
just after sundown - if you look due west (note the diagram above)
the comet should be visible almost due west 10 degrees above the horizon (remember that directly overhead is 90 degrees above the horizon - so 10 degrees is 1/9 of the way between the horizon & vertically overhead - roughly 8 to 10 moon diameters from the horizon)
I am gonna try -lmk know if anyone is successful

Here are some recent photos but the articles say it is feint and shows on photos only with time lapse..

www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/comet-posing-beside-crescent-moon-in-cool-photo-op-1.1191904
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/...is-tricky-for-skywatchers-but-its-easy-online
 
tornado said:
Hey -- just a long range alert -- clear your calendars in March & November of 2013.......
Comet ISON might be 10 times brighter yet and even be visible in daytime...
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/highlights/A-Dream-Comet-Heading-Our-Way-171521041.html

http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_21649181/two-possible-great-comets-coming-2013
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well RIP - but it appears that the comet the experts were calling ISON is the biggest flop in all of history..

this comet had once been termed the comet of the century - but it broke up and was only barely visible even with binoculars...
but now as it passed behind the sun - as expected it heated so much it simply dissipated or exploded and is completely gone...
possibly some residual dust could give a light show in the skies..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25143861


there are some reports that some of the comet's debris is reforming and still visible - but time will tell if it can still be called a comet..
 
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