Comet Lulin C/2007 N3

[Ion01]

I am surprise I haven't seen any discussio here about comet Lulin. It is passing close by the next couple of nights and is a great example of EU. It has a tail and antitail as well as an atmosphere large than jupiter. Here is some info.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observin ... 92534.html

[DustyDevil]

Excellent find, Ion01!

Comet Lulin is quite the performer: it has a tail and an antitail, it is orbiting counter to the orbits of the planets and nearly in the plane of the ecliptic, and it has had a tail disconnection. Here's the link to the APOD photo of Comet Lulin from Feb. 7th:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090207.html

Here's the link to the Spaceweather photo page for Comet Lulin:

http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/gall ... _page8.htm

Check out the second image from the Spaceweather page; it's a gif showing Lulin's tail disconnect.

Cool.

[seasmith]

~
Ion01,

There's been a discussion of Lulin here:

http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpB ... ?f=4&t=938

for a while now.

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[FS3]

If you take a look at the trajectory of that green fellow...

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2007+N3&orb=1

...than you may realize that Lulin lost parts of its tail on Feb.4th, exactly when it started to move AWAY from the Sun again.

Hasn´t this been a nice compliment for the Electric Universe, indeed?

I think so.

Thank you Lulin for behaving as predicted.

FS3

[seasmith]

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GOOD CALL.


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[sol88]

Maybe nuthn,

But an electrical resonance to Earth of the last couple days while it's close and an unusual comet (anti tail, close'ish pass) and usual weather events past month i.e. Australia- fires and floods, Northern Hemisphere Ice and snow storms? Also Interesting if Lulin runs into this

Solar wind observations show a continued influence from the recurrent coronal hole. Velocities have ranged between 430 to 490 km/s with interplanetary Bz between -3/+5 nT.

http://www.solarcycle24.com/ Might tickle it a little

[sol88]

also interesting

Winter turned fierce in the opening weeks of 2009. A bitter cold snap set in over much of the United States, and temperatures plummeted beyond -30 degrees Celsius (-22 F) in parts of the Upper Midwest. On February 2, portions of Western Europe were doused with heavy snow. England received the brunt of the storm with up to 20 centimeters (8 inches) of snow falling in London. It was the heaviest snowfall southeastern England had seen in nearly 20 years, reported BBC News. So why all the nasty weather? Part of the answer lies in the stratosphere, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) above the Earth’s surface.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36972





Check out the vortices's! Interesting to note what was happening in the south as well as the ionosphere

[Ion01]

I got to thinking about it and and there are a few things about the orbit of this comet that don't quite seem right. First it supposedly has a parabolic orbit and second it is almost exactly on the ecliptic plane of the planets. Supposedly this parabolic orbit means that it will never return as it is thrown out of the solar system. However, this would also mean that it had to come from outside the solars system and could not have originated in the oort cloud as if it had it would not have a parabolic orbit. Also, being on the ecliptic, as are most comets, this would indicate that either this supposed cloud is located on the ecliptic and not a surrounding cloud, and we all know the oort cloud is just made up, or there is another force that is forcing things to orbit near or on the ecliptic otherwise we should have comets going in every which direction, particularly if it came from outside our solar system. It also seem so contrary to probability that an object originating outside the solar system would come so close to the sun and on the ecliptic by only happen stance. Any thoughts?

[saturnine]

and we all know the oort cloud is just made up

There you go. The Oort cloud is purely hypothetical.

[Ion01]

There you go. The Oort cloud is purely hypothetical.

That's just it, even its orbit seems to be contrary to what it should be under standard theory.

Also, here is a picture that I took of the comet. The tail in my image is the dust tail and you can also see the large atmosphere as well as the comet nucleus!
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ ... er=2952680

[Liam S]

The story in the press (and sky) tells us:

[url2=http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1641 ... index.html]Backward-Flying Comet Zipping by Earth[/url2]

A Chinese teenager discovered Lulin two years ago and astronomers say what makes Lulin so unusual is that it still has many of its original gases, which are usually stripped away as comets near the sun.

Yeomans said unlike most comets viewable from Earth, this one hasn't been this close to the sun before. NASA astronomer Stephen Edberg said that while all the planets and most of the other objects in the solar system circle the sun counterclockwise, Lulin circles clockwise.

Additionally, an optical illusion creates a sense that the comet's tail is in the front as it approaches Earth and the sun.

So, are we in the land of helpful and convenient "optical illusions," or is the mainstream inventing a description for a phenomenon in order to rescue them from controversy (and investigation)?

[Ion01]

I had not read that one! I going to go with them inventing a description until they prove otherwise. We all know we can't just take thier word for it.

I also find it very interesting that it is maintaining its atmosphere in the presence of the "solar wind" which is supposedly stripping the atmosphere off planets. Also, the tails are not being generated by the stripping of this atmosphere (like they claim is causing the tail of venus) but are coming from the surface of the comet out through the atmosphere. Sounds like, and looks like, the charged sheath and its cellular type structure which sheilds charged bodies we so often talk about...... There really needs to be a TPOD on this.

Here are some other pictures I produced from my subs.
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ ... Frozen.jpg
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ ... 0stars.jpg

And a re-process of the one I posted earlier. I didn't quite have the colors adjusted quite right.
http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ ... Lulin3.jpg