Comet tail

[Liz]

Hey all, am sure a few of you have seen this, but is amazing, with most of Comet Encke's tail coming off as nears Sun.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/01oct_encke.htm?list1048951

[Omaroo]

Hi Liz - this has already been covered in General Chat: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=24467

amazing animation, huh! :thumbsup:

[Liz]

Spooky .... we posted at exactly same time, as had looked to see if had been mentioned, no worries.

[CoombellKid]

But I think Liz put it in the correct forum : )

regards,CS

[Omaroo]

LOL! Agreed!

[MortonH]

This forum is supposed to be for scientific discussion. I don't see anything scientific in the posts above! :P

I just thought it was very cool to see. Nothing scientific about that! :D


Morton

[Mr. Subatomic]

It's amazing how you can actually see the solar eruption streaming toward the comet!

[Jarrod]

amazing footage, but does any one know the amount of time the video actually spans? the video is fast forwarded, so how long did the original event actually take?

jarrod

[Mr. Subatomic]

According to NASA, the time between each frame is about 45 minutes. I haven't counted the number of frames but by the looks of it the whole animation spans over a day or so.

[Jarrod]

thanks,

I went into WMP to work out how many frames were in the clip, and I noticed a little clock on the bottom left corner of the video :doh:! any hoo, the video spans about 32 hours, so just over day, as you said.

thanks, jarrod