Green Comet Makes Its 1st Visit

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mohs In Memoriam RIP mohstly Member since January 2009 Posts: 19,412	Green Comet Makes Its 1st Visit Jul 4, 2018 22:36:03 GMT -5 Rockoonz, 1dave, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mohs on Jul 4, 2018 22:36:03 GMT -5
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Rockoonz misunderstood rock expert Member since August 2009 Posts: 11,465	Green Comet Makes Its 1st Visit Jul 5, 2018 1:04:52 GMT -5 mohs likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockoonz on Jul 5, 2018 1:04:52 GMT -5 Ho ho ho
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Fossilman Cave Dweller Member since January 2009 Posts: 20,722	Green Comet Makes Its 1st Visit Jul 5, 2018 9:51:49 GMT -5 1dave likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fossilman on Jul 5, 2018 9:51:49 GMT -5 I wanna see this one... Seen all the others so far..
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Green Comet Makes Its 1st Visit Jul 5, 2018 10:17:49 GMT -5

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Post by 1dave on Jul 5, 2018 10:17:49 GMT -5

We will have a front row view, but the sun may be bright in the way.

The gas cloud around the comet’s nucleus is about 4 arc minutes wide,” says Jäger‎. That means the comet’s atmosphere is 260,000 km in diameter, almost twice as wide as the planet Jupiter. These dimensions make it a relatively easy target for backyard telescopes.

We will probably get two new meteor streams from that.

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Green Comet Makes Its 1st Visit Jul 5, 2018 11:55:42 GMT -5 1dave likes this

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Post by mohs on Jul 5, 2018 11:55:42 GMT -5

When I posted the Jolly Green Giant I didn't realize galaxy light can often be green
They even call certain galaxies green peas.

Galaxies that glow green are known as green pea galaxies. They are compact, and have a strong green emission line from oxygen, making them look like a green pea. The oxygen surrounding the galaxies glows green when it is ionized by the galaxy's starlight. In order for the oxygen to be bright enough to give the galaxy a green color, there has to be a lot of ionized oxygen, and thus a lot of ultraviolet light produced by young stars. So green pea galaxies are young galaxies where lots of stars are forming, and may have played a role in the reionization of the early universe.

www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2017/01/24/there-are-green-meteors-and-green-comets-but-never-a-green-star/#9cf8a554ac83

What I was more interested in-- was reported incidents of the Sun flashing green
Guess that phenomena as been known to happen.
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