NASA | Solar Hurricane Tears Off Tail of Comet Encke
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NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Scientists believe that the disconnection of Comet Encke's tail was likely triggered by reconnection between the magnetic field around the comet and the field entrained in the CME. This same process takes place in the Earth's magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms.
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interesting to note the giant CME that they showed, about as large as the sun itself and going out to where the earth would be... like in the movie: "Knowing". Guess they are gearing up for that event after all...
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thanks sun you're such a gangster like when you destroyed comet NEAT for us that nobody around here seems to recall. you know, the Elenin from 2003
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it ripped it off but it grew back again
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obviously it has a giant penis just like me or you
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THE SUN CUMS!?!?!??!
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NOO!! not the tail !!!
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HA HA HA...
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this is all BS!!! everyone knows that god did it...
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No sound? I must have imagined what it just taught me... lol
my83merc 4 years ago 6
OMG COMETS ARE LIZARDS!!!!
VakuzaV47 9 months ago