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Blue Comet
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Andrew
2018-01-12 09:05:24 UTC
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Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
c***@optonline.net
2018-01-12 14:20:27 UTC
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Beautiful shot !
Christopher A. Lee
2018-01-12 14:24:37 UTC
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Post by c***@optonline.net
Beautiful shot !
The inaugural run of The Blue Comet....

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b***@m.nu
2018-01-12 19:14:23 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:05:24 -0500, "Andrew"
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you..... Or were you too fucking stupid to realize
that?
Andrew
2018-01-12 20:32:55 UTC
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Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.
Atlatl Axolotl
2018-01-12 21:05:27 UTC
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Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
.> A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
.> regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.

That is correct.

AA
b***@m.nu
2018-01-13 15:28:22 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:05:27 -0800 (PST), Atlatl Axolotl
Post by Atlatl Axolotl
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
.> A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
.> regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.
That is correct.
AA
AA No that is not always correct. A comet DOES NOT always have a tail
produced by the sun and when a comet goes around the sun one of its
tails is pointing at the sun, or at least behind the comet which would
be towards the sun or at least in its general direction
Atlatl Axolotl
2018-01-13 19:02:28 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:05:27 -0800 (PST), Atlatl Axolotl
Post by Atlatl Axolotl
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
.> A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
.> regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.
That is correct.
AA
AA No that is not always correct. A comet DOES NOT always have a tail
produced by the sun and when a comet goes around the sun one of its
tails is pointing at the sun, or at least behind the comet which would
be towards the sun or at least in its general direction
Um, both the ion tail and the dust tail are swept behind it relative
to the sun, pushed by the solar wind.

If you have any photos of comets demonstrating anything otherwise, I would be
interested in seeing them.

AA
b***@m.nu
2018-01-13 15:25:09 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:32:55 -0500, "Andrew"
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
No it does NOT..... If part of an object is bigger that means it is
closer
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.
No it does not, You are an incredible fucking moron..... When a comet
is in the oort cloud it only has 1 tail and it is not a tail produced
by the sun. You are such a fucking moron.
Andrew
2018-01-13 15:40:08 UTC
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Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
No it does NOT..... If part of an object is bigger that means it is closer
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.
No it does not,
Yes it does.
You are an incredible fucking moron.....
I always appreciate your kind remarks.
When a comet is in the oort cloud it only has 1 tail
and it is not a tail produced by the sun.
Have you ever seen one in the Oort Cloud?
Teresita
2018-01-13 15:47:34 UTC
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Post by b***@m.nu
No it does not, You are an incredible fucking moron..... When a comet
is in the oort cloud it only has 1 tail and it is not a tail produced
by the sun. You are such a fucking moron.
A comet doesn't have a tail in the Oort cloud. The temps are too low
out there to cause the various ices to vaporize.
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Atlatl Axolotl
2018-01-13 19:14:32 UTC
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:32:55 -0500, "Andrew"
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Post by Andrew
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1801/c2016_r2_2018_01_07dpjjc.jpg
Inbound from the Oort Cloud, its ion tail is a shade of pretty blue.
Wow you are an total idiot aren't you.... When the something is closer
in the foreground than it is in the background that means that is
moving AWAY from you.....
That depends.
No it does NOT..... If part of an object is bigger that means it is
closer
Post by Andrew
Post by b***@m.nu
Or were you too fucking stupid to realize that?
A comet's tail always trails away from the Sun
regardless of the trajectory of the comet itself.
.> No it does not, You are an incredible fucking moron..... When a comet
.> is in the oort cloud it only has 1 tail and it is not a tail produced
.> by the sun. You are such a fucking moron.

I think Andrew's subject line may be confusing. We are not
seeing this object "in the Oort cloud". We can't even see
the Oort cloud -- dark objects 100,000 AUs away from us.
It's a hypothesis, one that makes sense of phenomena, but
not something that has been directly observed.

At the time the photo was taken, the object was 3 AUs out,
somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Andrew took the line "inbound from the Oort could" from the
description at the Astronomy Picture of the Day's site. I'd
suggest he might want to leave the descriptions on in the future.


AA

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