[meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:15:04 -0400
Message-ID: <B9A854A387B44820862B8BBFF3130190_at_Notebook>

I just received my phone call and email from Space Weather.com phone line.
This List is remarkable for its early warning system!
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !


> It certainly is remarkable. Fascinating to speculate on just what occurred
> to throw off what must be a vast amount of material.
>
> Chris
>
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> From: "mexicodoug" <mexicodoug at aol.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Comet 17P (Holmes) Visible Event !
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>
>> Sure, and my questions were rhetorical more than anything else (not to
>> compare to Halley's Comet's size, or anything like that - they are
>> miracle specific). What would the wise kings in Biblical times have made
>> of this? (rhetorical)
>>
>> However, coma aside, a (now) 500,000 times increase in a few short hours
>> is quite remarkable by any standard - especially for something so far
>> away, and what has gone into this. This is not your typical comet event
>> as you know and is completely exploding off any graph for how magnitudes
>> of comets normally evolve - that is at the heart.
>>
>> This event will go down as one of the most spectacular, if not the most
>> spectacular, of its kind ever observed. If not for the prior much lesser
>> outburst recorded for this comet, I would be more inclined to think it
>> was an impact, than anything else. This is a comet that at closest
>> approach to the Sun only makes a Vesta (Main belt asteroid, maximum
>> concentration zone) distance. It virtually appeared out of nowhere into
>> not only the eyepiece, but also the naked eye at 2.4+ AU. Nonetheless,
>> your point about the coma is well accepted.
>>
>> I am blown away by rate at which it happened as the comet was already
>> very well far on its way out. and after all, it is traveling at 2.2 Km/s.
>> Best wishes,
>> Doug
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