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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 31.03.2013, 21:25 | Message # 121 |
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| Quote (Disasterpiece) What is the atm pressure on the surface of a comet
Varies depending on location and time (the jets are localized and not always in the same places) and depending on the individual comet. But it would be extremely low.
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| Watsisname | Date: Monday, 01.04.2013, 04:52 | Message # 122 |
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| Effectively zero. The surface gravity is on the order of 10-4g, so unlike planetary atmospheres the tenuous coma is not bound to the body and there's no meaningful pressure due to its own weight. Instead there is a small amount of pressure supplied by the kinetic energy of molecules that strike the surface, but the gas density is so low that this is also negligible.
I believe the effects of solar radiation pressure should actually be dominant over gas pressure here.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Wednesday, 03.04.2013, 22:04 | Message # 123 |
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| Epic photo of PanSTARRS from Ukrainian amateur:
http://www.astronomy.ru/forum....2368179
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 04.04.2013, 00:53 | Message # 124 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Epic photo of PanSTARRS from Ukrainian amateur
 That's amazing!
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| Solaris | Date: Thursday, 04.04.2013, 01:26 | Message # 125 |
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| It's absolutly splendid.
Color version :
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 04.04.2013, 01:32 | Message # 126 |
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| Quote (Solaris) Color version from apod
Actually that picture is by a different author 
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| Solaris | Date: Thursday, 04.04.2013, 01:35 | Message # 127 |
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| Yeah I've just looked on SE link to check and found it there.. I wanted share the colors one here too
This Russian thread is full of pearls 
http://www.astronomy.ru/forum....2362419
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Thursday, 04.04.2013, 01:51 | Message # 128 |
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| So many beautiful images 
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Saturday, 06.04.2013, 23:12 | Message # 129 |
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| From the same forum:
http://www.astronomy.ru/forum....2372743
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 07.04.2013, 00:52 | Message # 130 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) From the same forum
Obviously a composite of different images, but still cool
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| Watsisname | Date: Monday, 08.04.2013, 23:31 | Message # 131 |
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| Finally, I hear some quantitative and observationally-supported claim on the size of C 2012 S1's nucleus.
Quote (Spaceweather.com) Recent measurements by NASA's Swift spacecraft shows that the comet's nucleus is spewing more than 112,000 pounds (51,000 kg) of dust, or about two-thirds the mass of an unfueled space shuttle, every minute. To produce so much dust, the comet's nucleus is probably about 5 km wide. For comparison, the nucleus of bright sungrazing Comet Lovejoy, which wowed observers in 2011, was only about one-tenth as large. Comet ISON could put on quite a show when it approaches the sun later this year.
Sounds promising! And judging from the latest light-curves it looks like the comet has undergone a slow-down event (where the rate of brightness increase with time decreases), but this is normal for comets and if it continues on this track we can still expect a peak magnitude well in the negatives. I can't wait for November to come!
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| NovaSilisko | Date: Tuesday, 09.04.2013, 02:17 | Message # 132 |
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(I hope!)
Edit: Here's hoping it's actually bigger than the estimates suggest
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| Antza2 | Date: Tuesday, 09.04.2013, 10:12 | Message # 133 |
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| Pics i took last night. (click for full rez)
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| Martek | Date: Monday, 15.04.2013, 06:48 | Message # 134 |
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| Comet ISON is next! What are your bets? GREAT or NOT?
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| Watsisname | Date: Monday, 15.04.2013, 08:34 | Message # 135 |
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| I dunno, I don't bet on comet brightnesses.
Judging by the light curves it looks like it is undergoing an SD event (makes sense given its distance -- it's undergoing a transition from CO/CO2 sublimation to H2O sublimation). Its peak brightness at perihelion will depend on how this SD event plays out, among other uncertainties. It certainly has the potential to be a great comet though, no doubt about that.
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