Comet 73P

[Buttercup McToots]

This is a really cool site...
http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/
Try to see the comet...
SOME doomday people say that a fragment of the comet will fall into the Atlantic and cause a tsumani...today...I think we have enuff real ones goin` on right now...
But tis a cool site...
:wow:

[alfredo]

1. One of my greatest astronomy moments was seeing the black

spots on Jupiter after Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit. I used a 10.1" 4.5f Dob at 200X. I used a mask to cut down on the light.

[Buttercup McToots]

3. OMG

That must have been a grand image... :thumbsup:

[alfredo]

5. I went to my neighbor's house and made them come see it.

I told them that this is a once in a life time occurrence.

[Buttercup McToots]

2. It's really broken up now...

Here you can see it better...
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?rec=900510

[DemoTex]

4. 73P must be tiny.

It is a telescope object nearing the 6-million mile mark? Six million miles is relatively close, is it not? Hale-Bopp was 122.2 million miles away at its closest, and H-B was easily seen with the naked eye for weeks. Cool animation.


Hale-Bopp comet 1997

[puerco-bellies]

6. I had a house in Boyle Hts, East Los Angeles in 1997

Just after dusk I would stand in the middle of my street looking north and see Hale-Bopp framed by palm-trees along each side, juxtaposed a few degrees above the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. I would drink in the sight knowing that I would never see it's like again.