[Chaos-l] Just wondering

[Robert Nielsen]

Phil,

Oh definitely ... comets leave stuff in their trail all the time, even if the surface isn't melting.   So I do expect to see *something* when we pass through the tail.  The meteorites may be tiny, but we'll probably see something.

Robert

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On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:20 AM, "Phillip Suitt" <psuitt at nc.rr.com> wrote:

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> I’ll leave the geometry to you and Jayme but I did uncover this interesting fact. A comet’s surface begins to melt and therefore  produce a tail at about 150 million miles from the sun. It seems therefore entirely possible for the earth to have a chance to pass through this debris very soon after the comet had passed.
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> Phillip Suitt
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> From: chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:chaos-l-bounces at rtpnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Nielsen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:01 PM
> To: Chaos-l at rtpnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Just wondering
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> Jayme,
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> So it depends on whether the comet crossed the Earth's orbit in front or behind us, right?   If it entered behind us ... and is between us and the Sun ... and then exits behind us, then we won't pass through the debris until next year (since we'll have to go around the Sun to reach where the comet was.  If the comet entered or exits ahead of us ... then we could have a shower now or in the near future ...
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> Anyone else want to validate my geometry?
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> Robert
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Sep 13, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jayme Hanzak <jhanzak at unctv.org> wrote:
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> First we had a club picnic, not a lub picnic.
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> Secondly, if comet Elenin is passing between the Sun and the Earth, and Elinin is ruffly in the same
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> plane, will there be a meteor shower from the tail? We wouldn't see much through the day, but at
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> sun set and sun rise. That may be a different story.
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> Just a thought.
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> Jayme
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