Space observations of comet Elenin may take place by July 31st

July 4th, 2011 |

NASA / GSFC

As I wrote earlier, NASA is interested in observing Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) with the space coronagraphs SOHO and STEREO. Not long ago I received a reply from Joseph B. Gurman to the effect that starting July 17 they will be running pointing tests on the space telescope STEREO-B. The spacecraft will be rotated as will be necessary to do in the future to observe the comet. If all the tests are successful, of which the STEREO team has no doubt, they will observe Comet Elenin from July 31 to August 12, two hours a day. The minimal distance (July 31 2011, 12:40 UT) between comet and spacecraft will be 7.4 million km (0.049 AU). Plans to observe the comet using SOHO with different fliters are also in the works.

At the moment the comet is not yet attainable photographically from our observatory. Observers near the equator can observe it longer, but unless the comet breaks up near perihelion, we will be able to observe it in all its glory starting the beginning of October. I hope the nucleus of the comet will survive and it will give us a beautiful view.

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Tags: C/2010 X1 (Elenin), Comet, Comet Elenin, SOHO, STEREO, Комета, Комета Еленина

Mpefernandes

It would be an evidence of NASA’s concern with his comet? Sorry for the english I’m using google translate, because I’m Brazilian.
Mpefernandes

It would be an evidence of NASA’s concern with his comet? Sorry for the english I’m using google translate, because I’m Brazilian.

Anonymous

NASA just interested in study of our Solar System. Nothing more.
Anonymous

NASA just interested in study of our Solar System. Nothing more.

Alvega

Hi Leonid,
Do you think it is possible that STEREO AHEAD was already able to caught your comet between June 5 to the 27th? Take a look here: http://youtu.be/B8zQTm-dous

Anonymous

Hello,
No, this is another fake video. Bright object on video is Saturn! You can check. Go to http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/STEREOorbit/C2010_X1.html and zoom out. You will see Saturn…

Geologyfreak

That wasnt Saturn, Saturn was barley moving, go look at it again through what the video states (the time period taken) Elenin would have been captured in the image too along with Saturn then.

Anonymous

My comet can’t be visible on H1, comet is too faint right now.

Curious Al

Saturn was clearly below the field of vision of Stereo A at the time (even double checking on the link Leonid gave to try to point out that the object was Saturn, it is obvious that the object is not Saturn) unless the graphic of the field of vision of Stereo A is misrepresented by the video producers.

Assuming that the video is not faked and Comet Elenin is too faint to see and Saturn is out of range, then just what is this object we are seeing in the video?

The object appears to be very large — larger than I would expect Comet Elenin to be for quite some time yet.
Tom

It’s Saturn… Anyone with a basic understanding of astronomy and the program called Celestia should know this.
Tom

It’s Saturn… Anyone with a basic understanding of astronomy and the program called Celestia should know this.
Curious Al

Saturn was clearly below the field of vision of Stereo A at the time (even double checking on the link Leonid gave to try to point out that the object was Saturn, it is obvious that the object is not Saturn) unless the graphic of the field of vision of Stereo A is misrepresented by the video producers.

Assuming that the video is not faked and Comet Elenin is too faint to see and Saturn is out of range, then just what is this object we are seeing in the video?

The object appears to be very large — larger than I would expect Comet Elenin to be for quite some time yet.

Tom

The video was indeed Saturn. We used Celestia and overlaid the STEREO image to verify and the planets and stars matched up exactly. Still I for some reason worry about Elenin or what comes behind it, perhaps just because all the Buzz created around it.

So many things happening in the world… Lars Von Trier’s quoted “As the 2012 apocalypse is upon us, it is time to prepare for a cinematic last supper.” at the party for his upcoming movie called “‘Melancholia” which is regarding a planet coming from behind the Sun and threatening Earth.

When you mix that with all of the meaning behind your name, and Russians building 5,000 bomb shelters, extreme weather and earthquakes lately, the USA spending like there’s “No tomorrow”.. The Mayan prophecies, the Hopi prophecies, all the information circling about moving into the 4th “Density”… etc etc etc.

Worries me but if only the powers that be on this planet cared more about our species then they do money… We probably wouldn’t be faced with this situation.

The only we can do now is wait… I hope we at least have longer than 2012 on this planet, because I have a business to run and grow. Mr. Elenin, if you did know about this we can only hope that you would rather die in the name of truth than heading to the bunkers without warning your fellow man!

If this supposed Planet, which is not a “brown dwarf” as these people promote, I’m sure it is part of a divine plan and we shall love on in the energy world. The only thing that makes much sense is to say … “We live in interesting times”.
http://twitter.com/AstroEdgar Edgar Luis Gomez

En la versión en ingles hay un error “NASA is interested in observing Comet C/2011 X1 (Elenin)” debió ser C 2010 X1.
por cierto, elabore una web dedicada su cometa y allí estoy actualizando la información.
In the English version there is an error “NASA is interested in observing Comet C/2011 X1 (Elenin)” should be C 2010 X1.

indeed, develop a website dedicated your comet and there I am updating the information.http://cometaelenindiaadia.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/AstroEdgar Edgar Luis Gomez

En la versión en ingles hay un error “NASA is interested in observing Comet C/2011 X1 (Elenin)” debió ser C 2010 X1.
por cierto, elabore una web dedicada su cometa y allí estoy actualizando la información.
In the English version there is an error “NASA is interested in observing Comet C/2011 X1 (Elenin)” should be C 2010 X1.

indeed, develop a website dedicated your comet and there I am updating the information.http://cometaelenindiaadia.blogspot.com/

Anonymous

Thanks Edgar! Fixed!

Anonymous

Hi William!

Oh no, Mr. Omerbashich again. I’m answered on this question thousands times Briefly – forget.
Mar

La imagen de la NASA es real? The NASA image is real, comet elenin?

Anonymous

On the left image you can see comet 2P/Encke, taken by STEREO spacecraft.

http://www.cometelenin.com Comet Elenin

Oh, good! I’m glad you covered this! I was going to do a blog on it but I’ve been super busy doing other things. So I’ll just direct people to your report on it.

STEREO B should get some incredible data on your comet! Can’t wait! =D
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000561082594 Michael Murphy

Outstanding! What is latest Diameter of Coma?

Tom

Not a lot of people are revealing the size of this comet for some reason… Maybe it was because Comet 17/P Holmes exploded and rapidly expanded within 1 day? Predicting the size of Comets may not be as easy as we think.

I still say it looks like a comet… Just not as ‘defined’ as ones in the past perhaps… Looks a bit odd, but still mostly like a comet.
Tom

Not a lot of people are revealing the size of this comet for some reason… Maybe it was because Comet 17/P Holmes exploded and rapidly expanded within 1 day? Predicting the size of Comets may not be as easy as we think.

I still say it looks like a comet… Just not as ‘defined’ as ones in the past perhaps… Looks a bit odd, but still mostly like a comet.

Nick

hi mr.Elenin!
Are you sure comet are dirty icy balls?
Not every one thinks the same as you

Those like me who believes in an ELECTRIC UNIVERSE and of course ELECTRIC COMETS
http://www.thunderbolts.info/pdf/ElectricComet.pdf

i think you already know it
bye!
Nick

hi mr.Elenin!
Are you sure comet are dirty icy balls?
Not every one thinks the same as you

Those like me who believes in an ELECTRIC UNIVERSE and of course ELECTRIC COMETS
http://www.thunderbolts.info/pdf/ElectricComet.pdf

i think you already know it
bye!
Dennis B

I had a thought about your comet. I know that it is too late to do something like this but is it possible to tether a probe of some sort to a comet that travels at the speed Elenin does? Since Elenin has such a large orbit if we had a probe on it, it would pass voyager in no time and imagine the data that we could collect. Just a thought.
Dennis B

I had a thought about your comet. I know that it is too late to do something like this but is it possible to tether a probe of some sort to a comet that travels at the speed Elenin does? Since Elenin has such a large orbit if we had a probe on it, it would pass voyager in no time and imagine the data that we could collect. Just a thought.
nick

i do think comet elenin caused earthquakes
i do think comet elenin will cause other earthquakes
because
i do think comets are.. ELETTRIC: http://www.thunderbolts.info/pdf/ElectricComet.pdf

and part of our ELECTRIC universe: http://www.thunderbolts.info/
Leon Majal

Why is comet Elenin so special that NASA will turn the satellite on it?

Anonymous

Because comet will pass relative close to STEREO-B.

Leon Majal

If this comet is passing relatively close to stereo-B, could its tail (dust) damage satellite lenses?

Anonymous

I think no, at such distance density of dust will be very low.

DH

and google sky has censored it out

Mar

Acaba de haber un terremoto en Nueva Zelanda de 7.9, allí es 7 de julio, día de alineamiento de saturno-elenin-mercurio-sol. Pensar que es otra coincidencia es negar la realidad de los efectos que causa este cometa.
Just be an earthquake in New Zealand 7.9, there is July 7, day-Saturn alignment elenin mercury-sun. Thinking it’s another coincidence is to deny the reality of the effects caused by this comet.

Ulf Roald

I don’t understand how one alignment where Earth is not present could cause earthquakes on Earth. Almost all the time at least some 3 celestial bodies in our Solar System are aligned.

Cyrus

The Earth is actually in alignment right now with Elenin and Neptune, this is the actual alignment that Dr. Mensur Omerbashich believes is responsible for the increase in strong seismic activity we are currently experiencing. Mensur is predicting on his website that the current strong seismic activity will increase.

Ulf Roald

That’s a little bit different thing, but @Mar said about a Saturn-elenin
mercury-sun alignment. And Neptun is far from Earth and even if Elenin is a body much great than 4 km diameter. I doubt if the alignment could develop enough tidal, gravitational forces, without Sun or at least Jupiter or some other planets situated closer to Earth… Or not the gravitation is involve there?

Tom

Uh oh … Elenin-Saturn-Sun alignment today magically a 7.6 Earthquake in KERMADEC ISLANDS REGION. (source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html ).

This was predicted nearly a month in advance by people following Elenin closely. I think we’re about to see some extremely interesting things happen over the next months.

If one more Earthquake date for Elenin comes true… Well, then we have “theory” turning into scientific “fact”. Hopefully this is just another “coincidence”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

You can not blame an earthquake on an alignment of Saturn, Elenin, and the Sun. No science there what-so-ever.
Toasterhead

In science, there are no “alignments.” They are called “conjunctions.” And they are extremely rare. Even the so-called “alignments” you people are seeing aren’t true conjunctions, as all the planets orbit in different planes.

Second, there is no mechanism by which the movements of planets 2 AU away from us can cause earthquakes. Especially not from a tiny ice rock like C/2010 X1.

Finally, earthquakes happen every day. We live on a tectonically-active planet, and massive forces beneath the crust are applying constant pressure to the tectonic plates. Occasionally they slip, which we measure as an earthquake. Magnitude 6 earthquakes happen on average every 2 days, which means you’re always going to find a mag 6 or greater earthquake within a day of any alignment.

That is the textbook definition of coincidence. These two events co-incide. One does not cause the other.

DH

so japan, chile and haiti were all coincidences with elenin too huh? sounds like you’re pretending to be an expert without any research. mag6 every two days? do who WHAT?

Toasterhead

Here’s my source: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

Average annual number of earthquakes Mag 6 or higher: 150. 365 days in a year / 150 earthquakes = 1 Mag 6 earthquake every 2.43 days.

Also – there are tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of objects the size of Comet C/2010 X1 in the main asteroid belt, plus potentially hundreds of others at the L4 and L5 points of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This means that the Earth is “aligning” with an Elenin-size object hundreds of times per day. This does not mean that these “alignments” are causing the hundreds of minor earthquakes that happen every day.

Japan, Chile, and Haiti were all coincidences. Yes. Correlation is not causation. I’ll repeat that, because it’s really important. Correlation is not causation.

Ulf Roald

Indeed, your argument is very strong, I am convinced.

Ulf Roald

Conjunctions are not the same thing with alignments, the same thing could be eventually the occultations, and only if Earth is involved. Is a well know fact cause the celestial alignments of celestial bodies generate increased tidal forces, and that can cause earthquakes too, not just tides. But that happen usually when we talk about heavy bodies in close positions. But also, is not good to reject a idea only because not fit with our actual level of knowledge. Could be other forces and phenomenons which work in universe about what we don’t know yet

Toasterhead

Please cite the peer-reviewed literature that shows how celestial alignments of objects other than the Sun and Moon generate increased tidal forces on the Earth.

Boris

please stop- all this alignment/increased seismic activity BS is too much. Im sure Leonid doesnt want it pasted all over his proper scientific blog

Cyrus

Boris, all comments are monitored so anything not approved of is removed.
Leon Majal

Forums are made for wide discussions. Why not involve everyones theories?
Leon Majal

Forums are made for wide discussions. Why not involve everyones theories?
DH

we can’t seem to find any info on this Leonid hoax

Cyrus

Tonight on the science hour radio show Astrophysicist Prof. James McCanney will be discussing planet X and comets. All radio shows are archived at http://www.jmccanneyscience.com
Eje25

Why does the horizons orbit path for comet Elenin show three direction changes as it comes into the inner planets yet from as far as I can see all other plots are a smooth curve.

Anonymous

You talk about apparent motion? I’m already answered on this question.

http://spaceobs.org/en/asteroids-comets/faq/
Eje25

Hi Leonid, looks like the guts at JPL have updated the orbital path for your comet.. I notice its now a very NICE smooth curve!
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
Eje25

Hi Leonid, looks like the guts at JPL have updated the orbital path for your comet.. I notice its now a very NICE smooth curve!
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

Eje25

I just read your previous explanation “Yes, it does appear to make a sharp turn. It’s a trick of perspective” Yet I don’t see the same effect on other comets plotted at JPL.
Many Thanks. Looking forward to the autumn and hopefully seeing comet Elenin for myself.

Anonymous

You can see this effect for comets, which enter inside Earth orbit.

Donadell

Уважаемый Леонид, в приложении “Астрономической Газеты” (http://www.waytostars.ru/astrogazeta/kl15.pdf) за 23 апреля 2011 года Вы приводите инфракрасный снимок (сделанный 8.04.2011), на котором кома кометы имеет размер 1’02″ угловых минут. Ядро кометы, судя по снимку, составляет чуть более трети комы, т.е. около 30 000 км. Что Вы можете сказать по данному поводу?

Anonymous

Добрый день. Снимок привожу не я, а авторы газеты. Он взят с моего согласия,
с моего сайта. Это не инфракрасный снимок, а всего лишь обработка этого же
снимка, полученного на нашем телескопе. Говорить о размере ядра исходя из
этого снимка невозможно, так как то что вы видите “красным”, не является
ядром кометы, это внутренняя кома. Ядро кометы не превышает нескольких
километров в диаметре.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

Elenin has been in a “near alignment” with Neptune and the Sun for YEARS!
Cyrus

Last night Astrophysicist Prof. James McCanney formerly of Cornell University discussed his on going Planet X theories and Comet Elenin on his weekly radio show discussing how Comet Elenin is a non-threat to Earth and how planetary alignments with Comet Elenin could not possibly be triggering any of the earth’s most recent seismic events. All shows are archived at; http://www.jmccanneyscience.com

Professor McCanney paints a very interesting picture of what he truly believes is happening behind the world scenes of science and the banking community and how they interrelate. He also discusses some of the hidden history of Latin American’s vast gold wealth and where that gold may have gone.

Simon

I do wish you’d stop banging on about Prof. James McCanney. it is tiresome. he is not a professor, he was a lecturer for a couple of years way back in the seventies, but nowhere is it demonstrated he was ever granted a professorship. He is no more a professor than “Dr Dino” and jailbird Kent Hovind is a real Dr. Its just so much fluff to make unaccademic trite sound authorative.
What you should say instead of ‘professor’ is ‘whackjob decieving conspiracy theorising self publacist james McCanney’.
Simon

I do wish you’d stop banging on about Prof. James McCanney. it is tiresome. he is not a professor, he was a lecturer for a couple of years way back in the seventies, but nowhere is it demonstrated he was ever granted a professorship. He is no more a professor than “Dr Dino” and jailbird Kent Hovind is a real Dr. Its just so much fluff to make unaccademic trite sound authorative.
What you should say instead of ‘professor’ is ‘whackjob decieving conspiracy theorising self publacist james McCanney’.

Toasterhead

Agreed. Though it’s nice to know that even the whack jobs like McCanney are trying to stop this Elenin nonsense.

Simon

lol indeed says alot about the nonscence rating!

Toasterhead

Because not everybody has a theory. The word “theory” implies that a scientific hypothesis has made a testable prediction about an aspect of nature that has been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment, and put through the rigor of peer review.

You people asserting that cometary and planetary alignments cause earthquakes do not have a theory. You have not demonstrated a causal mechanism, have not confirmed this through repeated observation, and certainly have not been subjected to peer review. It is an assertion based on a false understanding of gravity, and an appeal to special pleading.

To call it a theory is an insult to science.

Ulf Roald

With a rigid mentality, almost none of scientific breakthrough of
mankind would not have been possible. Indeed, a ordinary comet don’t
have enough mass to cause tidal forces on Earth, and Neptune is too far,
even it have a big mass. But, otherwise, the planets, especially
Jupiter have enough gravity to cause gravitational pull above the Sun
itself. And other alternative theories which can try to explain such
strange interactions in Solar System, outside the action of gravity, already exist, “in utero” like
electric universe theory
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374 and the
georesonator of Mr. Omerbashich theory (I confess, I don’t understand it
’till now ) I think is wise to be open minded to some strange
possibilities about how universe works, and keep an eye on them, of
course, with caution and rationality.

Toasterhead

It is the rigid mentality of science that allowed these scientific breakthroughs to occur. Without this rigid mentality of testing and verifying hypotheses rather than believing every crackpot idea, we’d still think the sun and planets traveled in spheres around the Earth, or that disease was caused by demons and bad humors.

Science is open to new ideas, as long as you can prove their validity. Electric universe hypothesis may well be a fully explanatory modelof the universe. Until it passes the tests needed to call it a theory, I will not consider it one, and will instead consider it one of the many crackpot ideas about the cosmos.

Ulf Roald

Well, till’ now, with Electric Universe Theory is possible to explain better many intriguing space observations than with the classic theories alone.

Ulf Roald

With a rigid mentality, almost none of scientific breakthrough of
mankind would not have been possible. Indeed, a ordinary comet don’t
have enough mass to cause tidal forces on Earth, and Neptune is too far,
even it have a big mass. But, otherwise, the planets, especially
Jupiter have enough gravity to cause gravitational pull above the Sun
itself. And other alternative theories which can try to explain such
strange interactions in Solar System, outside the action of gravity, already exist, “in utero” like
electric universe theory
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374 and the
georesonator of Mr. Omerbashich theory (I confess, I don’t understand it
’till now ) I think is wise to be open minded to some strange
possibilities about how universe works, and keep an eye on them, of
course, with caution and rationality.
Ulf Roald

With a rigid mentality, almost none of scientific breakthrough of
mankind would not have been possible. Indeed, a ordinary comet don’t
have enough mass to cause tidal forces on Earth, and Neptune is too far,
even it have a big mass. But, otherwise, the planets, especially
Jupiter have enough gravity to cause gravitational pull above the Sun
itself. And other alternative theories which can try to explain such
strange interactions in Solar System, outside the action of gravity, already exist, “in utero” like
electric universe theory
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374 and the
georesonator of Mr. Omerbashich theory (I confess, I don’t understand it
’till now ) I think is wise to be open minded to some strange
possibilities about how universe works, and keep an eye on them, of
course, with caution and rationality.
Ulf Roald

With a rigid mentality, almost none of scientific breakthrough of
mankind would not have been possible. Indeed, a ordinary comet don’t
have enough mass to cause tidal forces on Earth, and Neptune is too far,
even it have a big mass. But, otherwise, the planets, especially
Jupiter have enough gravity to cause gravitational pull above the Sun
itself. And other alternative theories which can try to explain such
strange interactions in Solar System, outside the action of gravity, already exist, “in utero” like
electric universe theory
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4773590301316220374 and the
georesonator of Mr. Omerbashich theory (I confess, I don’t understand it
’till now ) I think is wise to be open minded to some strange
possibilities about how universe works, and keep an eye on them, of
course, with caution and rationality.
iksteh

Just wondering – why is “String Theory” called a theory then? It’s not provable through any empirical evidence or experiment. I’m not a doomsday believer or anything but there needs to be some consistency and based on your statements above, string theory needs special pleading too.
iksteh

Just wondering – why is “String Theory” called a theory then? It’s not provable through any empirical evidence or experiment. I’m not a doomsday believer or anything but there needs to be some consistency and based on your statements above, string theory needs special pleading too.

Toasterhead

Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

The most likely explanation is that Saturn is moving towards its northern hemisphere summer, a season which usually produces storms right around 35 degrees latitude, known to Saturn observers as “storm alley.” The storms are thought to be produced by the temperature difference between the direct summer sunlight and the shadow of Saturn’s rings.

That said, this storm is a bit unusual, in that it’s arriving a bit early – it’s only spring on Saturn. But before this can be attributed to an external body, you have to rule out internal causes first.
Alvega

Hi again Leonid,

Thanks for your previous reply regarding the video.
Have another one if you care to answer: mass of C/2010 x1 ? Is it known ?
Thanks and read you soon.
Alvega

Hi again Leonid,

Thanks for your previous reply regarding the video.
Have another one if you care to answer: mass of C/2010 x1 ? Is it known ?
Thanks and read you soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

We can estimate the mass of Elenin:
Assuming a radius of 2km and a rubble pile density of 1 g/cm^3, the mass of Elenin is 3.4E+13 kg and Elenin would have an escape velocity of around 1 meter/second (3.6kph or 2.2mph).

Eje25

If you look at the evidence of the various space probes the have photographed comets close up they seem to be more like asteroids than dirty snowballs which is the current model the experts keep telling us. So my guess is the density would be much greater than 1g/cm^3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

Known comets have been estimated to have an average density of 0.6 g/cm^3.

Small Body Density and Porosity: New Data, New Insights
Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVII
D. T. Britt; G. J. Consol-magno SJ; W. J. Merline
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2214.pdf

http://www.facebook.com/james.lovin James Lovin

once the comet clears the sun, won’t the tail turn away from the sun and be pointed in our direction. Secondly, will it be cloes enough to Mercury to dirupt the planet’s orbit? just curious,regard, james
http://www.facebook.com/james.lovin James Lovin

once the comet clears the sun, won’t the tail turn away from the sun and be pointed in our direction. Secondly, will it be cloes enough to Mercury to dirupt the planet’s orbit? just curious,regard, james
http://www.facebook.com/james.lovin James Lovin

once the comet clears the sun, won’t the tail turn away from the sun and be pointed in our direction. Secondly, will it be cloes enough to Mercury to dirupt the planet’s orbit? just curious,regard, james
http://www.facebook.com/james.lovin James Lovin

will elenin disturb Mercury’s orbit,and won’t the tail spin around and point towards earth once she passes the sun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

Elenin is not massive enough to perturb any planet. During the comets closest approach to the Sun, Mercury will be 0.75 AU (112,000,000 km; 70,000,000 mi) from the comet and near the other side of the Sun.

http://www.facebook.com/james.lovin James Lovin

will elenin disturb Mercury’s orbit,and won’t the tail spin around and point towards earth once she passes the sun.
http://www.facebook.com/james.lovin James Lovin

will elenin disturb Mercury’s orbit,and won’t the tail spin around and point towards earth once she passes the sun.

Edgar Luis Gomez

Hello!I have a doubt.

On the website of the JPL Horizons on the table “Orbit Determination Parameters” appears I do not understand “producer – Otto Matic” “Otto Matic” is a PC video game!.

What does this mean?

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1

http://badlyhonedbytes.wordpress.com Daggerstab

“Otto Mattic” is a pun on “automatic” (try to pronounce it). It probably is some joke by the JPL programmers. Other bodies also have the same “producer”, so it’s not unique to C/2010 X1:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Lutetia
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Chiron

The name has been in use at least since 2008, as evidenced by this post:
http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php/68964-Asteroid-TU24-close?p=1151725#post1151725

Edgar Luis Gomez

Hello!I have a doubt.

On the website of the JPL Horizons on the table “Orbit Determination Parameters” appears I do not understand “producer – Otto Matic” “Otto Matic” is a PC video game!.

What does this mean?

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1
Toasterhead

Do I know exactly how gravity works? No, of course not. I know that Newton’s approximation was pretty good, but failed to explain the orbit of Mercury. And that General Relativity fixed that problem, but doesn’t play well with quantum mechanics. And that superstring theory might unite the two, but can’t be empirically proven. Apart from that, you’re right – I don’t know exactly what gravity is or how it works.

I do know how it doesn’t work, however, and that is by violating the theories that have so far proven valid in explaining it.

The force of gravity between Earth and Comet Elenin or Neptune or Saturn can be calculated with reasonable accuracy with the formula F = G (m1 x m2/r2 ). The gravitational constant times the masses of the two bodies divided by thee distance between them.

Toasterhead

Given the vast distances between Earth and the outer solar system bodies and the miniscule mass of Elenin, this makes the force of gravity insignificant. Certainly not enough to create earthquake-causing tidal forces.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Vincent-Maldia/100001023048460 Vincent Maldia

i’m dying to see what excuses will come up once the photographs of the comet are in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

Recent images of Elenin:

Comet Elenin Becoming A Disappointment to Astronomers
http://sydneystargazers.com/2011/07/05/comet-elenin-becoming-a-disappointment-to-astronomers/

Mars is left behind, Earth is ahead! (June 21st)
http://spaceobs.org/en/2011/07/01/mars-is-left-behind-earth-is-ahead/

Looking forward to Comet Elenin (June 23rd)
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2011/06/28/looking-forward-to-comet-elenin/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kheider Kevin Heider

Recent images of Elenin:

Comet Elenin Becoming A Disappointment to Astronomers
http://sydneystargazers.com/2011/07/05/comet-elenin-becoming-a-disappointment-to-astronomers/

Mars is left behind, Earth is ahead! (June 21st)
http://spaceobs.org/en/2011/07/01/mars-is-left-behind-earth-is-ahead/

Looking forward to Comet Elenin (June 23rd)
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2011/06/28/looking-forward-to-comet-elenin/

Gerio Ganimedes

Dear Leonid Elenin

I’m Gério Ganimedes, amateur astronomer, researcher, UFO researcher and author of Projeto Quartzo Azul – Mensagens
Extraterrestres.

I’m live in Brazil
and representing http://www.projetoquartzoazul.blogspot.com,
humble and just come
through this e-mail, trying to get simple information about “his comet,” the ELENIN.
I through a language for lay people, so I can, as you have done
brilliantly on its website in a technical way, but we only astronomers and
scholars on the subject, we
understand reassure readers of my
blog here in Brazil. What I ask kindly for
you in the position of an
astronomer and discoverer of the celestial
body is in a few words to say to my readers and friends, the
reality on the Elenin Comet, because
I worry too much, the way a large number of sites
and blogs dedicated to disasters
in 2012, are now depositing, any disaster that happens
on Earth, the comet
discovered by you.

Thanks a lot for your attention and
dedication to astronomy and congratulations
to your discovery.

Gério Ganimedes

Projeto Quartzo Azul ©©
Gerio Ganimedes

Dear Leonid Elenin

I’m Gério Ganimedes, amateur astronomer, researcher, UFO researcher and author of Projeto Quartzo Azul – Mensagens
Extraterrestres.

I’m live in Brazil
and representing http://www.projetoquartzoazul.blogspot.com,
humble and just come
through this e-mail, trying to get simple information about “his comet,” the ELENIN.
I through a language for lay people, so I can, as you have done
brilliantly on its website in a technical way, but we only astronomers and
scholars on the subject, we
understand reassure readers of my
blog here in Brazil. What I ask kindly for
you in the position of an
astronomer and discoverer of the celestial
body is in a few words to say to my readers and friends, the
reality on the Elenin Comet, because
I worry too much, the way a large number of sites
and blogs dedicated to disasters
in 2012, are now depositing, any disaster that happens
on Earth, the comet
discovered by you.

Thanks a lot for your attention and
dedication to astronomy and congratulations
to your discovery.

Gério Ganimedes

Projeto Quartzo Azul ©©

LBHD

Dear Gerio
Hi I Luis from Chile.
You have any answer from Mister Elenin?
For my will be very interesting because here we have some expectative about this comets and the relationship with earthquake.
I look forward you comments
Obrigado

Gerio Ganimedes

Dear Leonid Elenin

I’m Gério Ganimedes, amateur astronomer, researcher, UFO researcher and author of Projeto Quartzo Azul – Mensagens
Extraterrestres.

I’m live in Brazil
and representing http://www.projetoquartzoazul.blogspot.com,
humble and just come
through this e-mail, trying to get simple information about “his comet,” the ELENIN.
I through a language for lay people, so I can, as you have done
brilliantly on its website in a technical way, but we only astronomers and
scholars on the subject, we
understand reassure readers of my
blog here in Brazil. What I ask kindly for
you in the position of an
astronomer and discoverer of the celestial
body is in a few words to say to my readers and friends, the
reality on the Elenin Comet, because
I worry too much, the way a large number of sites
and blogs dedicated to disasters
in 2012, are now depositing, any disaster that happens
on Earth, the comet
discovered by you.

Thanks a lot for your attention and
dedication to astronomy and congratulations
to your discovery.

Gério Ganimedes

Projeto Quartzo Azul ©©
Anonymous

is apopis pass between the moon and earth? will we be in the tail of elenin by then?
Anonymous

is apopis pass between the moon and earth? will we be in the tail of elenin by then?
Anonymous

is apopis pass between the moon and earth? will we be in the tail of elenin by then?
Ems

Will be intrigued to see the Stereo B footage in August. This is turning out to be a great comet tracking mission. Many thanks for the updates

Ems
http://twitter.com/rewwiter DeeG

О да, смена полюсов обещает быть красивым представлением.

Anonymous

Так эту смену полюсов предсказывали еще в марте, но ничего не произошло
естественно. Просто глупые бредни…

Chrispy_post

Is there any news yet on the plans of using SOHO??
Pat Bradford

I don’t have a comment, just a question, since Elenin’s alignments have been predicted with supreme percision. My question is can Nasa observers like a nearing Solar or Lunar Eclipse the predict not only the date of these alignment, but the precise hour of the day, again like it is done with various Eclipses? pbradfordm@aol.com
Lndunoyer74

it’s not one comet,its one planet in réality 2 planet

Anonymous

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