ISON odds...
Nov. 25th, 2013 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI had been getting up before dawn some days ago to see if the sky was clear, with the idea that if it was, I might venture out to see what I could see of comet ISON as it approached the sun. As the sky has pretty much been socked in every time I did this, I stopped getting up early, but that's a personal problem.
A report on the tube describes ISON as your usual dirty snowball, about 3 miles across (if memory serves, though it almost certainly is less than that now), that may provide quite a show should it survive its flyby of the Sun at an altitude of about 725,000 miles. I figure if the poor thing is fully 3 miles in diameter, it better be going like the proverbial bat, squared and cubed, if any part of it is to make it much past perihelion.
Nobody I can find is laying odds. I wonder what the wags in Vegas think?
A report on the tube describes ISON as your usual dirty snowball, about 3 miles across (if memory serves, though it almost certainly is less than that now), that may provide quite a show should it survive its flyby of the Sun at an altitude of about 725,000 miles. I figure if the poor thing is fully 3 miles in diameter, it better be going like the proverbial bat, squared and cubed, if any part of it is to make it much past perihelion.
Nobody I can find is laying odds. I wonder what the wags in Vegas think?
