Comet's tail ripped off!

[MortonH]

Check out this video on spaceweather. A coronal mass ejection from the sun rips the tail off Comet Encke! Very cool.

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/01oct07/movie_short.gif



Morton

[jjjnettie]

An awesome demonstration of Sol's power.
What impressed me was how quickly Encke grew back another tail!!

[h0ughy]

wow now thats impressive. Thanks for bringing it to our attention

[dwyman]

That is incredible. Thanks

[Glenhuon]

Great piece of video, thanks for the link

[RB]

Excellent video, thanks for the link Morton !!

[Ric]

Wow, how awesome is that.

Great link Morton

[sheeny]

Now that's something that you don't see every day!

Thanks for posting! very interesting.

Al.

[ballaratdragons]

WOW! Absolutely amazing! I sat here watching it, and when the tail ripped off, I went "WOW!!!

Of course my boys raced over to see what was so 'wow'. :lol:

They said the same thing :rofl:

That is truly incredible footage!!!

[danielsun]

Thanks for that Morton.:thumbsup:
That was amazing!

[tornado33]

A classic tail disconection event great video there