Karl Battams at NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign thinks only pebbles will fling out the other side of the sun.
NOVEMBER 28, 2013. It has been … a ride. Comet ISON rounded the sun today at 18:45 UTC/ 1:45 p.m. ES, and appeared to be disintegrating. Now this evening the comet is appearing brighter again. Will some remnant be visible from Earth in early December, as ISON pulls away from the solar glare? It hardly seems likely at this point that we’ll get a very bright comet. But we might get something. And, whatever happens now, hasn’t it been great so far?
That's cool! 850,000 mph!
NOVEMBER 28, 2013. The word on Comet ISON at this moment is not good. Karl Battams at NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign – who has almost singlehandedly informed the world about this comet – just wrote:
Last night [Nov. 27], I was optimistic that comet ISON would continue its dramatic brightening trend, and soar into the negative magnitudes. This morning it is indeed with a heavy heart that I show you the image [above], in which we clearly see that ISON has faded rather dramatically in the past few hours. It is still likely around -1 magnitude, but this number is falling fast.
The question on everyone’s lips is “will it survive perihelion?”, and now I’m reluctantly thinking it seems very unlikely to survive at this point. I do think it will reach perihelion, and reach the NASA SDO field of view, but based on what I see it doing right now, I will be very surprised to see something of any consequence come out the other side.
BUT… at every single opportunity it can find, comet ISON has done completely the opposite of what we expect, and it certainly wouldn’t be out of character for this dynamic object to again do something remarkable.
Today’s is Comet ISON’s perihelion. After traveling a light-year’s distance – over a million years – from the Oort comet cloud surrounding our solar system, Comet ISON will encounter the sun today. It’ll sweep only 730,000 miles (1.1 million km) above the sun’s surface. If it survives this encounter, Comet ISON could go on to become a beautiful comet in Earth’s sky.
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Your picture is incomplete.. Here's a better one:
thanks for sharing.
i wonder why naza and the other space scopes will not release a detailed picture of the surface of the so called ROCK, and why did the us.gov. shuted down when the planet mars lit up it's air and then the blackout of facts are now vague at best.
amazing how the solar wind blows the tail away-
ISON is just basically having a rest.
it needs a cup of tea after all that flying through space .. it must be knackered ..
Here is a cool site .. for anyone who wants to see comet ISON live .. right now ...
http://theskylive.com/ison-tracker
Thanks Luke. She was down but is not out it appears...I don't rely on what Nasa says about things, and I don't think it is a spaceship either, lol....Will be watching the scuttlebut about Ison. I am sure I will not be dsappointed in hearing conflicting info up the gwasuu...
ISON will be back. The slingshot effect didn't destroy Halley's Comet, it didn't destroy Apollo 13, and it won't destroy ISON.
Malcolm,
There is a massive difference between making a slingshot orbit around the moon, and doing the same type of slingshot around a sun...Apollo 13 does not compare to a comet in any way...
Isn't this weird?
Apollo 13
It was the thirteenth scheduled lunar space exploration mission, scheduled for liftoff at the thirteenth minute after the thirteenth hour. The Lunar landing was scheduled for the thirteenth day of the month. All it lacked was a Friday to be a paraskevidekatriaphobe’s worst nightmare. Unfortunately, no one at NASA was superstitious.
Tellurian: And how do you know this?