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Originally posted by nataylor
Elenin is too dim to see in binoculars now. And as I pointed out above, if you're looking in Gemini, you're not looking at Elenin. Based on your description of a object brighter than Saturn, due west just after sunset, I'd guess you are looking at the star Procyon, Betelgeuse, or Capella. All of those are brighter than Saturn currently appears. Capella is the brightest of those.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM. I looked at it personally and I failed to see any comet tail. Without a comet tail there is therefore no coma. Traditional comets because of their coma and tail are always fuzzy in the binoculars or telescope. ELENIN looks very sharp and clearly defined. No fuzziness about it.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
So in your opinion "Elenin is too dim to be seen in binoculars now". Young man I think that you're too much in your head [schizophrenia] and simply need to step outside to get some oxygen into your blood and to look at it personally. You will realise your error just as soon as you take the time to do some practical astronomy. Too much theory is unhealthy. I know my stars and I tell you that an object of 80,000 kilometres diameter [coma or not coma], situated in the asteroid belt is going to be not only visible in binoculars, but is going to be a very bright object in the naked eye.
I have looked. There is no such object. Nor are any other amateur or professional astronomers reporting such an object.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
Get outside and see it for yourself. It is clearly the brightest object in the sky due west at sunset. Compare it to Saturn which is due south at sunset. Also see how much brighter it is compared to the bright stars near to it like as Betelguese and Procyon, Castor and Pollux, Capella and Menkalinan. Get outside and see it for yourself.
You claim there's an object brighter than anything else in the night sky, and you're the only one seeing it. Those who do look, such as myself and many other amateur astronomers are somehow missing this object.
Originally posted by CAELENIUM
reply to post by nataylor
My simple reply to you is that "there are none more blind than those who do not look".
Eliptical orbit 3600 years.
Last Seen 1589 B.C
The latest update from JPL today still has Elenin classified as hyperbolic with an eccentricity of 1.000059803304575. Anything lower than one is outside the bounds of their 1-sigma error. I think it's safe to say this is a hyperbolic comet and the idea of it having a period of 3600 years is laughable.
Originally posted by Illustronic
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JPL updated the Comet Elenin orbital elements. The adjustments were generally insignificant. However, regarding the eccentricity slightly fluctuating very near to exactly 1.0, this causes the derived values for the semi-major axis, aphelion and orbital period to change dramatically. The eccentricity now given is 0.999955 resulting in a semi-major axis of 10793 AU, an aphelion of 21,585 AU and an orbital period of 1.121 million years.
In a long, dialogue-free final sequence, the travelers reach the bottom of the black hole and appear to enter Hell then Heaven.[1] Reinhardt and Maximilian embrace in space, and then appear merged as one on a high rock overlooking a barren, burning Hell-like landscape populated by robed figures resembling the drones of the Cygnus. Meanwhile, the surviving crew of the Palomino pass through a cathedral-like crystal tunnel, with their small craft eventually emerging safely from a white hole in the vicinity of a planet.
You may have heard the news: Comet Elenin is coming to the inner-solar system this fall. Comet Elenin (also known by its astronomical name C/2010 X1), was first detected on Dec. 10, 2010 by Leonid Elenin, an observer in Lyubertsy, Russia, who made the discovery "remotely" using the ISON-NM observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico. At the time of the discovery, the comet was about 647 million kilometers (401 million miles) from Earth. Over the past four-and-a-half months, the comet has – as comets do – closed the distance to Earth's vicinity as it makes its way closer to perihelion (its closest point to the sun). As of May 4, Elenin's distance is about 274 million kilometers (170 million miles).
Comet Elenin should be at its brightest shortly before the time of its closest approach to Earth on Oct. 16 of this year. At its closest point, it will be 35 million kilometers (22 million miles) from us. Can this icy interloper influence us from where it is, or where it will be in the future? What about this celestial object inspiring some shifting of the tides or even tectonic plates here on Earth? There have been some incorrect Internet speculations that external forces could cause comet Elenin to come closer. "Comet Elenin will not encounter any dark bodies that could perturb its orbit, nor will it influence us in any way here on Earth," said Yeomans. "It will get no closer to Earth than 35 million kilometers [about 22 million miles]. " "Comet Elenin will not only be far away, it is also on the small side for comets," said Yeomans. "And comets are not the most densely-packed objects out there. They usually have the density of something akin to loosely packed icy dirt. "So you've got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers," said Yeomans. "It will have an immeasurably miniscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean's tides than comet Elenin ever will."