Saturday, November 30, 2013

Comet ISON has not survived its rendezvous with the sun - BFMTV.COM

Comet ISON is not. She would not have survived its passage near the sun, astronauts concluded by examining the images transmitted by several solar observation satellites. “It seems that the comet Ison probably did not survive his journey,” concluded Karl Battams, a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington at a round table organized by the NASA TV.

“I just watched the latest satellite images and I see nothing out behind the solar disk and it could be the last nail in the coffin,” said he added.


Comet went back to the origins of the solar system

ISON, a large block of ice and rock, was brushing the surface of the sun closer to 1.17 million kilometers around 19:30, suffering temperatures of 2,700 degrees and losing three million tons per second.

Most astronomers had predicted qu’ISON not survive this close flyby of the sun. ISON mobilized the astronomical community since its discovery in September 2012 by Russian astronomers, because it goes back to the origins of the solar system there are 4.5 billion years. It is a breakaway because there a few million years, the Oort cloud, a sort of “parking” of comets in the Solar System located halfway between the sun and the next star.

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