In reply to Mauro Lacy's message of Sat, 14 May 2011 15:49:13 -0300: Hi, [snip] >Most probably, the reason is comets are charged bodies. The electric >field of the comet interacts with the electric field of the Sun, and a >CME occurs. The electric interaction is also the reason for cometary >tails, by the way. >The level of denial the academic community is in regard to this, is >simply astounding.
This feels intuitively wrong. If the charge were high enough to cause such havoc, and were repulsive (as the direction of the tail would imply), then the whole comet should never get anywhere near the Sun. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
