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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Space => Topic started by: Kamaji on September 10, 2023, 02:15:29 pm
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Newly discovered green comet to sweep past Earth next week — before disappearing for 400 years
By Katherine Donlevy
Published Sep. 9, 2023
A newly discovered green comet will be making a big debut next week — before disappearing for the next four centuries.
The half-mile-sized Comet Nishimura will likely be visible to the naked eye from the Northern Hemisphere for five incredible mornings after entering our solar system Tuesday, according to EarthSky.
The ball of ice will be the closest to the Earth on Sept. 12, but will pass from a safe distance of 78 million miles away as it barrels through its journey toward the sun.
If it survives its brush with the sun, the comet should be visible again at the end of the month, but this time only from the Southern Hemisphere.
Although visible to the naked eye, folks hoping to catch a glimpse of Nishimura are warned that its trail will be faint.
Early risers should look toward the northeastern horizon about 90 minutes before dawn and expect to see the comet pass about 10 degrees above the horizon near the constellation Leo.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/09/09/comet-nishimura-will-be-visible-in-northern-hemipshere-for-five-mornings/
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bkmk
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Is there any significance related to it being green?
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Is there any significance related to it being green?
Comet
It will make your teeth turn green
Comet
It tastes like gasoline
Comet
It'll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today!
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Comet
It will make your teeth turn green
Comet
It tastes like gasoline
Comet
It'll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today!
That brings back memories!
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:bkmk:
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Comet
It will make your teeth turn green
Comet
It tastes like gasoline
Comet
It'll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today!
Ode to my childhood...
That was beautiful, man! :beer:
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Comet
It will make your teeth turn green
Comet
It tastes like gasoline
Comet
It'll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today!
It would be funny if there was a new TicTok challenge for Comet!.. I mean, they did eat Tide Pods. Why not brush your teeth with Comet?
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Comets bring disaster... Our forefathers would tremble in fear right now.
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Comet
It will make your teeth turn green
Comet
It tastes like gasoline
Comet
It'll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today!
:silly:
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Lifeforce...
or
Maximum Overdrive...
We'll have to wait and see...
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Is there any significance related to it being green?
Kryptonite
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Kryptonite
:silly: :silly: :silly:
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Comets bring disaster... Our forefathers would tremble in fear right now.
Omens and portents, oh my!
(Obviously a result of Climate Change)
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Omens and portents, oh my!
I pay more mind to that than most.
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I pay more mind to that than most.
Like...?
Luke 21:25-26
"And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
I make light of much I hold in awe, it helps me contain my fears.
Yet in this, I fear not for me, for He is with me.
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Like...?
I make light of much I hold in awe, it helps me contain my fears.
Yet in this, I fear not for me, for He is with me.
Yeah... something like that... Yah put the objects in the heavens for signs and for seasons. It is easy with a merely astronomical mind to forget that they are there for a reason... A giant clockwork.
Add to that an historical aversion to comets particularly, and I have to perk up.
I put more weight on the testimony of history than I do current science. Present company excepted, of course. happy77
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Yeah... something like that... Yah put the objects in the heavens for signs and for seasons. It is easy with a merely astronomical mind to forget that they are there for a reason... A giant clockwork.
Add to that an historical aversion to comets particularly, and I have to perk up.
I put more weight on the testimony of history than I do current science. Present company excepted, of course. happy77
IIRC, it was eclipses that were the real harbingers of doom, historically, but those happen more often than comets.
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IIRC, it was eclipses that were the real harbingers of doom, historically, but those happen more often than comets.
Both are true - But comets, because they are rare, are omens of particular doom... Similar to series of eclipses, but with more urgency.
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Both are true - But comets, because they are rare, are omens of particular doom... Similar to series of eclipses, but with more urgency.
Well, I recall an ad (can't find it on You Tube) where "Look, It's Haley's Comet!" was used as a distraction to steal french fries or some such.
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Well, I recall an ad (can't find it on You Tube) where "Look, It's Haley's Comet!" was used as a distraction to steal french fries or some such.
It could happen...
:laugh:
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If it's Green, it's gotta be good, right?
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If it's Green, it's gotta be good, right?
Well wasn't it green in Lifeforce? That one was filled with vampires...
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Well wasn't it green in Lifeforce? That one was filled with vampires...
Just a cosmic booger...
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Well wasn't it green in Lifeforce? That one was filled with vampires...
Lifeforce a bad adaptation of somewhat decent book titled Space Vampires by Colin Wilson. The movie was really just an excuse to have a naked woman walking around, wasn't it?