{"id":2002,"date":"2011-09-05T14:43:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2011-09-05T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T04:43:11","slug":"farewell-elenin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/09\/farewell-elenin-2002.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Elenin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confirmed today by Sky and Telescope<\/a>, Comet Elenin has either broken in half or disintegrated completely. Astronomers have seen its brightness halving in the last week, and the bright core has become “elongated and diffuse”. The writer closes with:<\/p>\n

I guess all those pseudoscientific bloggers who predicted planet-altering encounters with a cosmic visitor bright enough to be seen in broad daylight will just have to find something else to worry about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, maybe, maybe not. \u00a0 Leonid Elenin<\/a> has this to say:<\/p>\n
Now it is absolutely clear that the comet\u2019s drop in brightness, first noted<\/a> by Michael Mattiazzo on Aug. 20th, was not coincidental \u2013 the decay process had already begun, and over the course of the next several days the comet changed greatly. Its pseudo-nucleus became diffuse and extended, and later vanished completely. On images from Sept. 1st in the comet\u2019s coma there was no condensation visible, and that meant the comet had already broken up into fairly small pieces, with a maximum size of not more than a hundred meters.<\/p>\n
Such a breakup of small comets passing near the Sun is not rare, and in that is nothing surprising. I note that this is a breakup, not an explosion. All the pieces continue to move on the comet\u2019s trajectory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The Electric Universe folk believe Elenin was highly negatively charged, accumulated during its very long orbit. Unless the comet broke up due to some sort of discharging, then nothing has really changed. It still has the same mass (albeit in small pieces), the same charge and the same trajectory. Therefore it could still trigger earthquakes… Be prepared for the next Sun\/Earth\/Elenin alignment on Sep 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Confirmed today by Sky and Telescope, Comet Elenin has either broken in half or disintegrated completely. Astronomers have seen its brightness halving in the last week, and the bright core has become “elongated and diffuse”. The writer closes with:
\nI guess all those pseudoscientific bloggers who predicted planet-altering encounters with a cosmic visitor bright enough to be seen in broad daylight will just have to find something else to worry about.
\nWell, maybe, maybe not. \u00a0Leonid Elenin has this to say:
\nNow it is absolutely clear that the comet\u2019s drop in brightness, first noted by Michael Mattiazzo on Aug. 20th, was not coincidental \u2013 the decay process had already begun, and over the course of the next several days the comet changed greatly. Its pseudo-nucleus became diffuse and extended, and later vanished completely. On images from Sept. 1st in the comet\u2019s coma there was no condensation …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}