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"COMET ISON Maybe Breaking Apart" NASA Says - A Timeline Of Comet ISONs Dangerous Journey

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A comet’s journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. 
 
A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches Mars — at some 230 million miles away from the sun — the radiation of the sun begins to boil its water, the first step toward breaking apart.
 
 And, if it survives all this, the intense radiation and pressure as it flies near the surface of the sun could destroy it altogether.
 
Watch the video:  A Timeline Of Comet ISON’s Dangerous Journey
 
Predicted hour-by-hour position of Comet ISON in various instruments on one of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft between 1 a.m. EST on Nov. 26, 2013, and 7 p.m. EST on Nov. 29, 2013. The blue field of view is from the outer coronagraph and green from the inner coronagraph. Image Credit: NASA/STEREO/Goddard Space Flight Center
 
Right now, Comet ISON is making that journey. It began its trip from the Oort cloud region of our solar system and is now travelling toward the sun. 
 
The comet will reach its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day — Nov. 28, 2013 — skimming just 730,000 miles above the sun’s surface.
 
 If it comes around the sun without breaking up, the comet will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere with the naked eye, and from what we see now, ISON is predicted to be a particularly bright and beautiful comet.
 
Image Credit: NASA/STEREO/Goddard Space Flight Center
 
Cataloged as C/2012 S1, Comet ISON was first spotted 585 million miles away in September 2012. 
 
This is its very first trip around the sun, which means it is still made of pristine matter from the earliest days of the solar system’s formation, its top layers never having been lost by a trip near the sun. 
 
Scientists will point as many ground-based observatories as they can and at least 15 space-based assets towards the comet along the way, in order to learn more about this time capsule from when the solar system first formed.
 
Even if the comet does not survive, tracking its journey will help scientists understand what the comet is made of, how it reacts to its environment, and what this explains about the origins of the solar system. 
 
Image Credit: NASA/STEREO/Goddard Space Flight Center
 
 Closer to the sun, watching how the comet and its tail interact with the vast solar atmosphere can teach scientists more about the sun itself.
 
Karen C. Fox
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
 
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      NAZI NSA NASA, the all seeing eye of the pyramid scam of elite (rothschild dy nasty) LIES again about comet ISON. ISON is part of the Nibiru system. NASA is not the only ones with access to radio telescopes to measure the nucleus of ISON. Contrary to NASA lies ISON s nucleus is 500 times larger than NASA claims. 2600 km across and a tail four times the size of Jupiter. Make no mistake ISON is causing the surge lately in volcanoes earthquakes and biblical proportion Earth changes and extreme weather patterns. Research comet ISON through other than NAZI NASA they are filthy lying sociopaths

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