I just received my phone call and email from Space Weather.com phone line.
This List is remarkable for its early warning system!
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !
It certainly is remarkable. Fascinating to speculate on just what occurred
to throw off what must be a vast amount of material.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "mexicodoug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !
Sure, and my questions were rhetorical more than anything else (not to
compare to Halley's Comet's size, or anything like that - they are
miracle specific). What would the wise kings in Biblical times have made
of this? (rhetorical)
However, coma aside, a (now) 500,000 times increase in a few short hours
is quite remarkable by any standard - especially for something so far
away, and what has gone into this. This is not your typical comet event
as you know and is completely exploding off any graph for how magnitudes
of comets normally evolve - that is at the heart.
This event will go down as one of the most spectacular, if not the most
spectacular, of its kind ever observed. If not for the prior much lesser
outburst recorded for this comet, I would be more inclined to think it
was an impact, than anything else. This is a comet that at closest
approach to the Sun only makes a Vesta (Main belt asteroid, maximum
concentration zone) distance. It virtually appeared out of nowhere into
not only the eyepiece, but also the naked eye at 2.4+ AU. Nonetheless,
your point about the coma is well accepted.
I am blown away by rate at which it happened as the comet was already
very well far on its way out. and after all, it is traveling at 2.2 Km/s.
Best wishes,
Doug
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