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Old 03-03-2013, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by philiphart View Post
I'm no expert on comets, but I understand that's effectively what happened.. you can see the lumps drifting back along the tail from when that happened. But a new tail keeps reforming.
This is fascinating. I didn't realise the dynamic nature of this. I understand the tail changes in size but I never thought its structure would change that radically in a short period of time. This is very cool. A snapshot of the event in time.
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