Fire in the Sky

Sun Grazing Comet

Science @ NASA
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:59 UTC

A new video from NASA shows the sundiving comet of July 5th interacting with the sun's atmosphere as it evaporates above the stellar surface.

Reader Comments

Seeker · 2011-07-27T15:33:06Z

Note to sun grazing comets..!

Please will you remember, NASA repeatedly declares you to be Icy or dirty snowballs! Please will you stop showing continually inconvenient signs of your real identity as electrically charged bodies and please, please do not baffle NASA scientist Dean Pesnell (boy doesn’t he look smart!?) by behaving in ways icy comets should not i.e. being brighter than the sun as it passes by… and by the way, what icy body could survive the billions of years NASA say these have and yet not have delivered up their only meaningful constituent, i.e. water, about x hundred million years ago? And how pray do they manage to make it that close to the sun and not vanish in the extended outer atmosphere with its 8,000,000–20,000,000 K temperature? Hmmn! And after all they’ve only counted 2,000 of these discharging bodies... sorry I meant dirty snowballs... since 1996 – that’s a mere 12 a month on average. Nothing for us to get worried about because of course, NASA has it all covered. Hmmmmmmmmmmm!. Better get that electrically neutral tin hat on in case a lump of Icy comet comes my way. Oh I forgot, NASA already told its staff to get their heads down! So maybe they do know something after all…

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By the way, don't you just love that patronisingly dumbed down 'science' voice on all those NASA videos?!

PRao · 2011-07-28T20:33:31Z

sun crashing Comet became very bright. why ?

NASA 's answer is 'Wait as Anlayze' and the world knows the answer for decades. Solar capacitor theory. That's how one can get 15 billions tax payers money per year.