Comet McNaught
Man, looking at these pics, I am soo jealous. The entire time the comet was visible in the Northern Hemisphere, it was cloudy in my area. Very annoying.
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Chuft-Captain
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Apparently there was an article in our local paper today saying that McNaught could be 100,000km in diameter 
I imagine a newspaper reporter has got their units confused and substituted "km" for "metres". (A comet larger than Jupiter so close to the sun would be somewhat brighter than this one I think 
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Anyway, has anyone heard any realistic predictions or measurements of it's size:?:
AFAIK, most comets tend to be 10's of metres up to 10's of km in size.
I imagine a newspaper reporter has got their units confused and substituted "km" for "metres". (A comet larger than Jupiter so close to the sun would be somewhat brighter than this one I think
)
Anyway, has anyone heard any realistic predictions or measurements of it's size:?:
AFAIK, most comets tend to be 10's of metres up to 10's of km in size.
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LordFerret
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Johaen wrote:Man, looking at these pics, I am soo jealous. The entire time the comet was visible in the Northern Hemisphere, it was cloudy in my area. Very annoying.
What I found even more annoying was that barely any mention was made of its arrival. I only caught eye of the article I'd posted by chance.
