Twas the night before Thanksgiving,
And all across Earth,
Eyes were staring at the heavens,
What’s Ison worth?
It may be a big show. Or a big dud.
We will not really know until Comet Ison makes its way around the sun–if it makes it, we will have a wonderful light show and a potential ‘Comet of the Century’ until Christmas.
We will not really know until Comet Ison makes its way around the sun–if it makes it, we will have a wonderful light show and a potential ‘Comet of the Century’ until Christmas.
We reported last night that Ison was looking like it would die a slow and icy death. Today there are mixed signals and a renewed chance that we will witness this potentially historic comet.
While you spice your turkey and un-can your yams, tonight may be a great night to tune into Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. He’s on right now live as I write this, affiliates can be found here. Among his topics will be Ison and, as he reported tonight, fireballs being seen across Greece–and also apparently San Diego.
ALSO THIS:
CNN: NASA’s Comet ISON Observing Campaign website says the comet is “brightening dramatically” ahead of its close encounter with the sun on Thursday.
The glare of the sun has blocked most ground-based observations for now, but NASA has a fleet of spacecraft watching as ISON plunges toward the sun. Two space telescopes recorded images of the comet after it started acting like it was falling apart. NASA’s STEREO satellite and later the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft both spotted ISON.The images indicate that ISON is on course and “is seen to brighten … a reasonably bright tail might develop as the comet reappears,” said Padma Yanamandra-Fisher with observing campaign.
