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jude11
Also, why is it scary? It's just rock hurtling through space with a shape that is comparable to a beaver?
cheesy
Okay2 i will edit it..sory guys haha
combatmaster
Bigger than Australia?
We're all f*cked!!!!
The ones on earth are scary enough, but space ones?
TDawgRex
reply to post by cheesy
Pretty cool stuff. But I'm sure that if ISON was the size of a planet we would have heard about it by now.
The new orbital data for Comet ISON contains a new parameter, "T_jup", the "Jupiter Tisserand invariant", which indicates that the new calculation includes the gravitational perturbation of ISON's orbit by the largest planet, Jupiter. Thus it would appear, according to NASA's numbers, that the influence of Jupiter has captured ISON into the solar system, to return in 400,000 years, whereas otherwise it would have left and never returned.
Pinkorchid
reply to post by cheesy
Here's another one for you Cheesy :_
Having difficulty getting that second vid to embed.
www.youtube.com...edit on 24-11-2013 by Pinkorchid because: (no reason given)
The total area of Australia is 2,967,909 sq miles (7,686,850 sq km), which is slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states.
Pinkorchid
reply to post by cheesy
Cheesy are you sitting down?
Take a deep breath and look at this:-