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Originally posted by DragonFire1024
So Comet Hale Bopp wasn't a good enough show? As I recall, it has been the only major naked eye comet view in my lifetime so far
it was bound to happen eventually
Originally posted by Phage
It's the second coming of course. Note the name, I Son!
We're all gonna die...again.
current predictions are of an object that will dazzle the eye at up to magnitude —16. That's far brighter than the full Moon.
link
quite possibly a once-in-a-civilisation's-lifetime event.
International Scientific Optical Network (ISON)
Originally posted by reject
it was bound to happen eventually
Originally posted by Phage
It's the second coming of course. Note the name, I Son!
We're all gonna die...again.
just kidding...
yeah, this is going to fuel nibiru and/or the 2nd coming post 12/21/2012 and what a way to do so too.
Its supposedly going to be brighter than the full moon being a magnitude -16. As you so aptly pointed out, its name "I SON" will be latched on to by the fundies as being portentous.
current predictions are of an object that will dazzle the eye at up to magnitude —16. That's far brighter than the full Moon.link
quite possibly a once-in-a-civilisation's-lifetime event.
saw it on rense.com
link
In fact, Comet ISON may still shine at a respectable magnitude +3 on Christmas Day 2013 and also just might become the great Christmas comet of 2013.
Originally posted by AlphaHawk
reply to post by Signals
I think you may have stumbled into the wrong forum here.
This is the space exploration forum, not dutchsinse BS forum...
For a comet to be half the brightness of the sun it would be brighter than the brightest full moon.
There is also no way of telling how bright the comet will be yet either.
Because 2012 S1 appears to be fairly large—possibly approaching two miles (three kilometers) wide—and will fly very close to the sun, astronomers have calculated that the comet may shine brighter, though not bigger, than the full moon in the evening sky.
Originally posted by wildespace
reply to post by Red73Eng
I don't know all the particularities of its trajectory (it's safe to say it won't hit us or shift our poles), but the worst it could do leave some dust in the Earth's path, which would create a meteor shower.
but if galactic alignment of our solar system is true