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December 2010 Russian astronomer Leon
elenin announces the discovery of a new
Comet roughly 400 million miles from
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Earth calculations show that the comet
moving on a highly eccentric orbit will
intersect the orbit of the
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earth based on the size of its coma most
astronomers viewed the comet as typical
and unexceptional suggesting a body two
or three miles wide but the projected
Earth Crossing orbit sparked an outburst
of Internet rumors and doomsday
predictions most remarkable were the
suggestions that the comet was a rogue
planet and claims that it would
profoundly disturb the Earth causing
earthquakes or a shifting of the
poles and even the end of the
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world respected astronomers were
dismayed how could such scientific
illiteracy attract millions of viewers
to internet articles and
videos experts reminded us of the
trivial mass of a comet just 2 to three
miles wide passing millions of miles
from Earth
Million
Miles
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Away as it turned out what actually
happened to alanin PO a profound mystery
for Comet
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science in the summer of 2011 Elan and
grew brighter than expected and
astronomers began to anticipate a
respectable
show but the situation changed when a
powerful coronal mass ejection erupted
from the
Sun on August 19th the CME struck the
comet elenin the comet flared brightly
appearing to disintegrate explosively
while rapidly dimming before it was
visually lost against the glare of the
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sun on October 24th only days after the
expected closest approach to Earth
Italian astronomers captured the remains
of Ellen and on film an extremely faint
and diffused cloud of dust was all that
could be
seen how did the disintegrate and
virtual disappearance of alanin
occur the answer appears to lie in the
role of charged particles in an
electrical
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event popular astronomy imagines comets
to be dirty chunks of ice moving through
electrically neutral
space but a growing number of electrical
experts say that Comet nuclei are
negatively charged they say that a comet
begins discharging electrically as it
moves more deeply into the electric
field of the positively charged
sun when the charged particles of a
chronal mass ejection struck the comet
Elin the oppositely charged nucleus
could not withstand the electrical
stresses it disintegrated like an
exploding capacitor
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the electrical theorists assure us that
comets are not what we were taught in
school no practical experiment ever
demonstrated that a dirty chunk of ice
would disintegrate explosively under
gentle warming from the
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Sun one of the strongest challenges to
astronomers assumptions occurred in
December 2011
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that was when the comet love joy plunged
into the atmosphere of the sun its fate
seemed
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certain but to the amazement of
astronomers the comet emerged in
spectacular fashion its tail undulating
violently under electromagnetic forces
then separating from the nucleus only to
be reborn after the emergence of the
nucleus from the Sun one
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the explosive demise of comets cannot be
due to solar heating in fact eruptions
and Comet disintegration have occurred
in regions so remote from the Sun that
warming is not even a
factor we saw one of the most improbable
flaring in the case of comet hiy a
regular visitor to the inner solar
system in 1991 5 years after hi's
closest approach to the Sun
it was well beyond the orbit of
Uranus where temperatures hover around -
330° F it
erupted producing a dust cloud
180,000 M across
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if thermal stresses are excluded it
seems that only one consideration
remains shortly after the hle Outburst a
few astronomers began to Wonder Could
charged particles from the Sun be a
factor at the time solar wind activity
had peaked at a higher level than had
been seen in
decades then two astronomers observed
that the charged particles of a powerful
solar flare on January 31 one would have
likely reached hiy around February 12
the date of the
Outburst The Coincidence of the Outburst
with that arrival seemed too great to
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dismiss could electrical events be the
key to Comet outburst and
fragmentation to this day astronomers
have no explanation for the sudden and
spectacular brightening of comet Holmes
in 2007 it had been moving rapidly away
from the Sun for about five months when
its coma size suddenly grew by a factor
of a million making it even larger than
the
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sun was it a coincidence that just two
days before the comet's display there
was a sharp spike in the output of the
solar
wind in the electrical view the sudden
arrival of charged particles from the
sun will explain what otherwise would
have no known cause electrical surges
and capacitor breakdowns go
together high-tech image processing
later showed that the nucleus of Holmes
had broken apart with many fragments
contributing to its brightening
confirming a general pattern comets
flare brightly when breaking apart
in 1976 Comet West brightened greatly in
a series of outbursts perhaps a dozen or
so then shocked astronomers by breaking
into
fragments warming by the sun is not a
reasonable explanation of such events
when Comet veronin fragmented it in 1957
it was just inside the orbit of icy
Saturn much the same occurred in the
case of comet bellaa Bamber
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more than once comets have broken up at
their greatest distances from the Sun
well beyond the orbit of Neptune and
when breakup occurs the fragments have
separated at inexplicably high
velocities mainstream theory has no
explanation for the energy driving such
events the progressive disintegration of
the Comet Schwan vman 3 beginning in
1995 left astronomers grasping for
answers the 150 million miles away it
brightened spectacularly shining
hundreds of times more brightly than
expected then astronomers discovered
that the comet had broken into at least
four
pieces then in 2006 the Hubble Space
Telescope captured the spectacular
disintegration of the comet in progress
while it was still out beyond Earth's
orbit it was then clear that the comet
had broken into more than three dozen
fragments as house-sized chunks of the
Comet appeared to disintegrate
completely some within the span of a
single day
remarkably similar to the fate of elenin
was the explosive demise of the Comet
Linear in July 2000 like elenin linear
entered the inner solar system from its
outermost regions on a highly eccentric
orbit for the electrical theorists that
means a maximum change in the electrical
environment as it approached its
parhelion some 70 million miles from the
Sun it
flared then rapidly
disintegrated then came the announcement
that the event produced an explosion of
X-rays at the interface of the debris
cloud and charged particles from the
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Sun intense interfacial energies of this
sort up to the level of X-ray emission
can only be the signature of electric
charge
exchange the disintegration of linear
provides a strong parallel to the story
of alanin the teardrop form of the flare
and the relationship of the flare to
disintegration are virtually
identical all that was left of linear
was a cloud of dust the expected
abundance of water was simply not there
and what of elenin as reported by Leonid
elenin himself the expected water vapor
was
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missing and so the mysteries of comets
deepen and the most urgent need is to
reconsider the nature of comets as a
whole
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it's now clear that Comet outbursts do
not occur because of surface warming but
charged particles exploding from the Sun
are implicated in cometary Outburst
insulating material around a Charged
body gives way under an electrical kick
or Spike
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the point is well Illustrated in
electric discharge at Stone Ridge
engineering here blocks of acrylic are
bombarded by high energy electrons
creating an internal cloud of charge but
nothing spectacular happens until the
blocks are tapped sharply with a
metallic Spike then charge is released
through instantaneous breakdown and
fracturing the lightning Pathways of the
fractures frozen into acrylic
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the energies of electrical breakdown and
fracturing of this sort will not just
explain the flaring and disintegration
of comets but the remarkable velocities
at which the fragments
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separate it seems that anomalies are
just too easily ignored or
forgotten but recurring anomalies can be
the or to
Discovery what better way to move
science forward than to start with the
Forgotten
question what is a
comet how are comets
formed what holds the cometary coma in
place against the force of the solar
wind how are the long filamentary Tales
created and maintained in the extreme
vacuum of
space what force creates and confines
the powerful cated Jets from the
nucleus where is the water ice of which
all comets were supposed to be
constituted if charged particles from
the Sun are triggers for outbursts or
disintegration of comets the behavior of
these bodies has almost nothing to do
with relative masses or Surface
temperatures and everything to do with
the electric
force above all else we must now ask
what is the comet's place in the
electric
universe is it possible that one
question could remove all of the
anomalies that one answer could explain
the flaring the
fragmentation and the catastrophic
demise of these Cosmic intruders years
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