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Comet Ison is Not Dead!

  • November 29, 2013

It appears Comet Ison may very well be cat-like.  Chunks of the nucleus have made it through the solar corona, re-emerged and are beginning to brighten.  I have  provided a link to read the entire story by CNN, updated 8:11 AM EST, Fri November 29, 2013

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/29/us/ison-comet/

Karl Battam Makes the Call on Comet Ison

  • November 29, 2013

Karl Battams at NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign – wrote on Twitter:

“Alright we’re calling it, and you heard it here first: We believe some small part of #ISON’s nucleus has SURVIVED perihelion. ”  As reported on Earthsky.org.

http://earthsky.org/space/big-sun-diving-comet-ison-might-be-spectacular-in-2013

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Comet Ison – Too Close to the Sun?

  • November 28, 2013

It appears that Comet Ison has gotten too close to the sun and may have broken up.  Here is a link to the latest as reported by USA today:  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/28/comet-ison-nasa/3776419/

“At this point, I do suspect that the comet has broken up and died,” says Karl Battams, a comet scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory, who joined a NASA and Google+ chat from Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona. “Let’s at least give it a couple of more hours before we start writing the obituary.”

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Pier Available!

  • November 24, 2013

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