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C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be?
C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be?
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 Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:01 amDespite my fingers being crossed for a spectacular hit it looks more unlikely now passing the 100 thousand to one mark.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/n ... e=2013-081 Still sufficiently close to give the robots a decent shooting star display I think.  _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:41 pm Well the next comet in the queue might give us a light dusting and some interesting clouds.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... r_isonids/ I wonder what Bruce Willis cloud imagination skills are like   _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Sat Aug 17, 2013 10:58 pm I only just spotted this it was done in march before the odds went over the 100thousand mark but interesting non the less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T2eBSexgX4 _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:40 pm Some updated info on the comet passing Mars in a few days it looks like 71% of us are likely to be correct. Most of if not all of the outside chances have been ruled up by updated calculations of its orbit but we may still get a few interesting pictures later this month.
http://hobbyspace.com/Blog/?p=9015&utm_ ... um=twitter _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:13 pm A bit more info with a video showing how the satellites in orbit around Mars will be in the shadow of Mars for the worst part of the debris from the comet.
http://www.gizmag.com/comet-siding-spri ... -a1/34267/ _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:23 pm Slooh will be doing a couple of live webcasts to do with the comet 1st at 18:15 GMT or 19:15 BST if I am reading the clocks right. and a later one just after its past at 00:30 GMT
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:54 pm Some pics of the comet gathered together by Bad Astronomer of the slate include first one taken by Opportunity rover on Mars.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... llery.html edited to say pic was by Opportunity rover not curiosity as i first typed by mistake. _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:21 am Spectacular images! Thanks for all the links, Alex.
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:02 am USJay wrote: Spectacular images! Thanks for all the links, Alex. Your welcome another for the collection a bit fuzzy but some put together in an animation IIRC some of the data collected over the last few days won't be downlinked until Thursday so there maybe some more interesting pics when they are finally processed. http://www.marspages.eu/index.php?secti ... newsid=802 _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:24 pm And a composite one from Hubble posted on a NASA site
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/ ... EkonYvF92Q Edit to add there is going to be live youtube hangout about the Hubble views of the comet at 20:00 BST about 30 mins from when this was reposted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXIqZiZ5ZNk _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Re: C/2013 A1 Comet how much fun is it going to be? Posted on: Sun Nov 09, 2014 2:37 pm Despite no good pics of the meteor shower as far as I am aware its seems that instruments on various bits of kit detected enough data to know that there was a spectacular one that did for a while have interesting effects on the Martian atmosphere.
http://www.gizmag.com/maven-comet/34652/ _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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