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Re: Comet C/2008 P1 Good News/Bad News

Forest — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:18:40 GMT

Thanks It was all over the local media It was quite a sight !!!! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:43 AM, "Joe Stieber" wrote: It was

Re: Comet C/2008 P1 Good News/Bad News

Joe Stieber — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:49:18 GMT

It was an artifical noctilucent cloud sent aloft by a Black Brant sounding rocket out of NASA's Wallops Island, Virginia, facility. See:

Re: Comet C/2008 P1 Good News/Bad News

Forest — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:54:55 GMT

Thanks Russ My father in law was disapointed He was hoping for space aliens In the meantime the sky here in Westhampton Beach is the best in a long time Happy

Re: Comet C/2008 P1 Good News/Bad News

Russ — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:47:22 GMT

What you saw was a rocket launch from Wallops Island tonight. I followed it online and finally at launch time, went out side and looked from my backyard in

Re: Comet C/2008 P1 Good News/Bad News

WHE — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:11:18 GMT

Hi folks I have a beautiful sky here on Eastern Long Island tonight so I'm going out later to observe; Dennis thanks for your info - I'll try to observe later

Comet C/2008 P1 Good News/Bad News

dennis_persyk — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:54:21 GMT

The Good News: Comet C/2008 P1 is the only comet in the sky right now with a nice long tail. I imaged it last night with a 4-arc minute long beautiful tail.

Heaven's Above is not a reliable source of comet information

Greg Crinklaw — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:11:51 GMT

Heaven's Above is not a reliable source of comet information. It was way back in 2003 that I first sent Chris Peat, the developer of Heaven's Above, a note

Re: A green comet tonight!

billweir110 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:13:32 GMT

It was a bolide. I live across the water from Seattle, on Vancouver island, and there were sightings here and in Vancouver. It sounds like it was spectacular,

Re: A green comet tonight!

P. Clay Sherrod — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:08:35 GMT

I agree with Greg; this was very likely a very spectacular and colorful bolide. Dr. Clay _____ Arkansas Sky Observatories MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South

Re: A green comet tonight!

Greg Crinklaw — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:08:37 GMT

What M watson means is a water dump from a Space Shuttle (which is in fact water). But these don't usually look green, nor are they typically so obvious that

Re: A green comet tonight!

canyonwhizzer@... — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:57:32 GMT

I believe what you saw was.... astronaut Pee Pee. M watson [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: A green comet tonight!

tallchip1 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:25:02 GMT

... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Are you sure you it was a comet or could it have been a meteor? How long did it take to cross the sky? Dennis O'Day

Re: A green comet tonight!

Brian Cudnik — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:44:08 GMT

It was probably a meteor, a bolide, since comets do not cross the sky that quickly. These happen from time to time, and are often called "comets" since they,

A green comet tonight!

z_jingjing — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:28:24 GMT

Hi, I saw a big bright green comet tonight at about 8 pm , I was in a park with friends ,so several of us saw it cross the sky , it was so beautiful, well , I

Re: can any one give RA, DEC of new comets

yeratel72@... — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:34:03 GMT

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