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sparkuri

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I remember reading somewhere that Reagan put some stock in the Chernobyl wormwood theory, that it was one of the signs.
Interesting that Chernobyl National forest is currently on fire, isn't it?


 

MondoIDIOT

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First discovered by some peasents in the Hubei province of China around November 17th, astronomers then re-found the comet named "Atlas" in late December.
Official designated C/2019 Y4, some scholars believe it to be an ancient star called "Wormwood".

It has increased in brightness over 4000 times since discovery, and is said to be gigantic; between the size of Jupiter and the Sun.

It is said it will slingshot around the sun, cork-screwing in trajectory and passing by the earth later this month at 10's of thousands of KMH.

It is a deep green color, and is currently visible by binoculars, and at its brightest, could be as bright as the moon, even if it breaks up into thousands of smaller city-size chunks.
If all goes well, it should have a Summer resurgence in June as it completes its orbit.




In unrelated news, the richest families in the world have decided to rent all the now-vacant cruise lines for the next few months to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon from an ocean view.
All fine and dandy there


However I have one small request



BRING A GODDAMN SOURCE NEXT TIME !!!

YOU ACT LIKE I GOT TIME TO DO MY OWN SEARCHING


JESUS ITS NOT ONLY ABOUT YOU

THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM


COME WITH A SOURCE OR NOT AT ALL
 

sparkuri

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All fine and dandy there


However I have one small request



BRING A GODDAMN SOURCE NEXT TIME !!!

YOU ACT LIKE I GOT TIME TO DO MY OWN SEARCHING


JESUS ITS NOT ONLY ABOUT YOU

THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM


COME WITH A SOURCE OR NOT AT ALL

Source?

OK




Space, the final frontier. These are the voy...
 

sparkuri

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Borisov has broken up into some likely Tunguska-sized meteors, and Atlas breaking up nicely as well.

Rather inconvenient for the avid enthusiast, since world economies are shutting down, that also means many observatories are closed operationally.

But there are a few good ones still around and can get us good pictures, enough to where guys can put out good content like this:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oD3RpoBkDk
 

sparkuri

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Hubble Captures Atlas Comet Breaking Into Mini-Comets



Now we have 3 Comets in the sky - Comet Atlas, Comet Panstaars and Comet SWAN. I took these pictures from my backyard with RASA 11.

Now we have 3 Comets in the sky - Comet Atlas, Comet Panstaars and Comet SWAN. Comet Atlas even though it is fragmented, we are tracking 5 Objects that are related Comet Atlas - C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), C/2019 Y4-A (ATLAS), C/2019 Y4-B (ATLAS), C/2019 Y4-C (ATLAS) and C/2019 Y4-D (ATLAS). Current reported magnitude of Comet Altas is Mag 9-11. It is slowly fading away unfortunately.

Comet Panstarrs - C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) is in one piece with a magnitude of 8.3 and Comet SWAN - C/2020 F8 (SWAN) with a magnitude of 9.3. Comet SWAN is expected to be Mag 6 on May 21, 2020. Even though Comet SWAN is mainly visible to the people in Southern Hemisphere, there is small opportunity to see this comet in Northern Hemisphere during the sunset time in May. I will post the latest update on the dates and times soon.
 

Rambo John J

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Heard a crazy podcast with Shepard Ambellas about all the stuff being tracked and untracked in space right now...pretty wild stuff.