Comet Ison 'destroyed in Sun pass'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25143861

by zoowar • 13 years ago

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themstheones• 13 years ago

What an anti-climax. I'm sure everyone in the hacker news community was eagerly anticipating the skies in December.

ars• 13 years ago

Hopefully we'll get another Comet Ison (i.e. another comet by the ISON telescope network).

I don't think this one should get exclusive rights to the name any further :)

benjoffe• 13 years ago

This has been called too early, comets are very unpredictable and ISON appears to be brightening again as it loops around: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/11106507235_ec20b425d7_o.... (apparently the same thing happened with comet lovejoy).

Somewhat up to date information is being posted to this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1rn7fb/rspace_comet_i...

devindotcom• 13 years ago

AFAIK the dust trail was expected to continue along the original path - it would brighten too as it caught the light, but I understand there is no nucleus visible.

petercooper• 13 years ago

Yeah, something's coming through at least: https://twitter.com/CometISONnews/status/406205195253583872

deletes• 13 years ago

The latest picture is pretty bright for just dust...

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/...

Comet Ison 'destroyed in Sun pass'

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