Saturday, September 14, 2013

Comet ISON To Reign Down Fire In January 2014?

Scientists are calling it the comet of the century. Newly discovered comet ISON is due to make its spectacular appearance beginning November 2013 as it begins its close approach and whiplash around the sun. It’s what happens afterwards that could be a problem…Come ISON was only discovered one year ago, in September 2012, by two Russian astronomers of the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON). Astronomers say it is a new (strong) comet coming from the Oort cloud which has never before slung around the sun, and therefore has never been weakened by the heat of sun like other periodic comets. Not only that, but this comet is a sun-grazer, and is expected to violently erupt with geysers of gas, ice, and ‘dust’, as an extremely bright tail forms while it makes its close approach to being whiplashed around the sun beginning November 2012. Our solar system is surrounded by an Oort cloud comprising many billions of comets. Occasionally one is jostled out, streams in to the sun, loops around, and sails back out. At the time of this post, comet ISON is approaching the orbital plane of Mars and is streaking towards its closet distance to the sun which will occur on November 28. Before that day, the heat from the sun will begin to shred bits and pieces from the comet as it forms a huge and magnificent tail behind it. It will become so bright and spectacular, that scientists say it will become brighter than the moon.



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