On 29/11/13 6:55 AM, WALSH STUART wrote:
Poor thing. It was meant to spectacularly bounce off the sun at half a
million miles per hour. And on Thanksgiving Day in North America. And
light up the skies for Christmas.
But the bouncing bit of the equation didn't seem to work out. A doomed
trajectory - ripe with symbolism...
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of ISON's death have been
exaggerated. As of this morning it appears to have survived its close
encounter with the Sun and is starting to look like a comet again:
http://www.isoncampaign.org/karl/schroedingers-comet
Perhaps some musical reflections on the Phoenix are in order?
Geoff
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Geoff Gaherty
Foxmead Observatory
Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
http://www.gaherty.ca
http://starrynightskyevents.blogspot.com/
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