RE: http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2007/friedrichw1027.htm
Comet Holmes brightens in retreat
An explosion on a distant comet, Holmes, has been examined by UK astronomers using the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) on the Canary Islands.
The explosion was so big that the comet brightened by a factor of a million; and it can now be seen from the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye. ...
One of the UK observation team, Professor Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's University, Belfast, said it was a once in a lifetime event.
"Although comets have been seen to undergo outbursts before, the scale of this dwarfed anything seen in the past century," he said.
....... Comet Holmes is a regular visitor to the inner Solar System. It takes 6.9 years to orbit the Sun once. It made its closest approach to our star last May, passing by at some 300 million km (190 million miles).
To the naked eye, Holmes appears as a fuzzy yellow dot in the night sky in the Perseus Constellation.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7070108.stm
GIANT COMET: Comet 17P/Holmes has been relentlessly expanding since its explosion on Oct 23rd and now it spans an angle in the sky almost half as wide as the full Moon. ... Actually, the comet is even bigger than it looks. While the Moon is a mere 240 thousand miles away, Comet Holmes is 150 million miles from Earth. The comet's physical diameter is thus seven times wider than the planet Jupiter--and it is still expanding.
http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_holmes_page7.htm
Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?month=11&day=01&year=2007&view=view
Updates:
INSIDE COMET HOLMES: Comet 17P/Holmes is plainly visible to the naked eye.... "Clearly seen here are delicate internal rays, a bright jet, and a brilliant sunshine-yellow core," he says. "The comet's outer envelope is a stunning emerald color."
The jets and rays, reported now by a growing number of photographers, remind us of the fantastic explosion that took place on Oct. 23rd when Comet Holmes increased in brightness a million-fold in less than 24 hours. Ever since, the sunshine yellow core has been expanding--fed by jets? Or driven by the momentum of a blast that no one saw until it was over? No one knows. The underlying cause of the explosion and current events at the core remain a mystery.
And mysteries should be savored: After sunset, point your telescope at that 3rd magnitude fuzzball in the constellation Perseus. The strangest comet you've ever seen is waiting in the eyepiece.
Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=11&year=2007
COMET 17P/HOLMES: Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words: ... This is a composite image of exploding Comet 17P/Holmes. French astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer combined various exposures taken through his 4.1-inch refracting telescope to highlight the comet's bright golden core (with jets and streamers), its gossamer green halo and an emerging faint blue tail. It's one of the strangest and most beautiful photos of a comet ... ever.
http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/holmes/02nov07/Sebastian-Voltmer2.jpg
If that doesn't make you want to see Comet Holmes with your own eyes, perhaps this will: "The comet is growing fantastically," ... "By Sunday," he estimates, "it will be half as wide as a full Moon."
Source: http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=03&month=11&year=2007
Remember”118”
http://www.fivedoves.com/numberbite/NUMBERBITE_0019.htm
we are still within that one year cycle....! ...Bro Ian... now passed...
...let’s comfort one another with these words:
1 Thessalonians, chapter 4
16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Psalm 118,26: Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD...
Maranatha
Come Lord Jesus
