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AlphaHawk
reply to post by Tallone
4. Comet ISONs eccentricity is slightly greater than 1. This means it is unlikely never to return again, although that would not be impossible. No comet before has ever been observed with an eccentricity greater than 1! Its orbit is therefore hyperbolic rather than the typical elliptical trajectory we are used to seeing in comets.
Just on this point, you're completely wrong.
Comet C/2011 L4 has an eccentricity of 1.000087
en.wikipedia.org...
And that was just a random one I picked.
Perhaps you should go and recheck your 'facts'.
Comet ISON's eccentricity is 1.000003457
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Tallone
"Comet ISONs eccentricity is slightly greater than 1"
Comet ISON’s Eccentricity
Any object orbiting the Sun in a closed loop has to have an eccentricity between 0 and 1. If that orbit is in a circular fashion like our own planet’s, its eccentricity will be close to 0. Earth’s eccentricity is around 0.017 which means its orbit is very circular (although not perfect)! However, an object with an eccentricity close to 1 could take tens of thousands of years to complete an orbit as the orbit will be very elliptical.
Comet ISON’s eccentricity is 1.000003457 – just ‘over’ 1! If you’ve not already worked this out for yourself, this suggests that its presence in our Solar System is an event that has never happened before and will never happen again. Instead of it having a highly elliptical orbit around our Sun, it seems ISON is just passing through.
HoboHumpinSloboBabe
I think you two, and your buddies, should get out of the military disinformation computer room for a while.
I never realized the principles of astronomy were a ''bible dogma'' that can't be evolved or change no matter how many new things we discover about nature,the universe...!
Whenever the status quo is attacked it generally responds. This is what is happening right now. We have had the Angry Astronomers defending their fortress of expertise from a perceived attack (happens all the time in science - it is the stuff of scientific debate in the final analysis). Hopefully the removal of this thread from the Space Exploration forum and into ATS Skunk Works (ta ta ta daaa!) will please the racoon and his/her friends. I did not mean to undermine the principles of astronomy - a subject of particular interest for me.
I think a cover up of information about the anomalies observed in Comet ISON and what they mean for us here on Earth centres on the impact such knowledge would have firstly, on the global economy, and secondly, on mainstream science as it has been taught to us, particularly physics. The two impacts are actually tied together as I have pointed out already above.
Comet ISON heralds a brand new era. Now if you doubt a cover up over ISON just consider that this has all happened before, a long time ago. Back in 1642 as a matter of fact, when the Church attempted to squash Galileo's revelation that the Earth revolves around the Sun. There are far more recent cover ups over the past decade I have already pointed out, but the Pope and Galileo 'bit of a tiff' seems appropriate at this moment.
ParasuvO
reply to post by eriktheawful
You have no idea how big this comet is, so I am not sure why you are trying to tell us how much bigger it needs to be.
Funny how science stands in the way of itself on a regular basis, gotta be proven totally wrong, several times before the rules of physics get altered, AGAIN and AGAIN.
Oh wait, it is all theories presented as facts, until they are changed!!
And this is the greatest system we can ever have too. !!
No comet before has ever been observed with an eccentricity greater than 1!
eriktheawful
If this comet does none of the things you listed........doesn't that mean that the evidence supporting your EU theory is not there?
It appears that Elenin under infared is carrying quite a large EM electrical charge, and in the Electric Universe Theory, comets are capacitors, also NASA's own research has suggested as such concerning comets. This comet is carrying enough charge to create possible earthquakes in allignments, and it may do some serious damage to our electrical, or cause a surge via the sun in CME's, there is so much to consider regarding Elenin, and how its role could add to increasing frequency of earth changes, even to pole shift levels.
AlphaHawk
reply to post by HoboHumpinSloboBabe
I think you better go and have a read of what was said again.
My response, the one you quoted and are trying to be smart about was to this statement made by the OP:
No comet before has ever been observed with an eccentricity greater than 1!
I gave an example of another comet that had an eccentricity greater than 1.
Showing the OP to be wrong.
But it's ok, you keep on doing whatever it is you're doing...
eriktheawful
Well I won't call anyone that wants to believe in EU theory "kooks" or anything like that. I'm sure people thought Copernicus was a "kook" too, heh.