Kamikaze Comet

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Uploaded by on Jun 9, 2008

A bright comet was observed plungin toward the Sun, overheating, and disintegrating by the STEREO (Ahead) COR2 coronagraph (May 22-24, 2008) over about a 36-hour period. The comet was a member of the Kreutz sungrazer family, named after a 19th century German astronomer who studied them in detail. Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a giant comet at least 2000 years ago. Many of these fragments pass by the Sun and disintegrate. Most are too small to see, but occasionally a big comet like this one comes by. (The Sun is represented by the white circle and the black disk is the occulting disk used to block out the immediate area around the Sun so we can see fainter structures in the surrounding corona.)

Even though a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) does occur just as the comet approaches the Sun, this is clearly a coincidence. It occurs before the comet even reaches the Sun. There is no known mechanism for an extremely tiny object like a comet (compared to the huge mass of the Sun) to trigger a magnetic explosion on the Sun, especially across a distance of a million km.

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  • Depuis quelques mois seulement, les frères de l'espace et ceux qui veillent sur le devenir de l'humanité et de la planète ont reçu l'autorisation pour la première fois depuis que l'humanité existe d'injecter en quelque sorte des particules très particulières dans le soleil, ce qui fait que nous devons profiter du rayonnement solaire au moins une fois par jour car elle passe directement par le chakra du coeur et non plus par la couronne, c'est à dire par le haut du crane.

  • In recent months, the space brothers and those who watch over the future of humanity and the planet have given permission for the first time since the dawn of humanity in some way to inject particles very particular in the sun, which means that we must take advantage of sunlight at least once a day as it passes directly through the heart chakra and not by the crown, ie from the top of the skull.

  • LOL this aint a comet its nibiru they were fast forwarding it watch the time at the bottom of the screen

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