Who Beleives this is something else?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071103/ap_on_sc/brighter_comet

I saw this thing in the sky the other night and it was bright as hell!

Way to bright to be normal...I think is something else and they are trying to explain it to cover it up

Answer 1

not to disagree with the learned panel of scientists above me, but doesnt anyone else wonder why there is never a mention of orbital parameters in the comet stories?

definitly aliens

Answer 2

The comet in your link is just a comet. It is in a well known orbit and all astronomers know it is a comet. The comet is brighter than usual now, about as bright as an average star, but not bright enough to attract attention if you weren't already looking for it, so that is not what you saw. It had just been REALLY dim before that, so dim that you couldn't even see it at all without a telescope.

As to the bright thing you saw in the sky, did you notice the REALLY bright star next to the Moon at dawn twilight this morning? It was Venus. But since Venus and the Moon are both moving in their respective orbits, you will not see these two so close together tomorrow morning. But look anyway, because you need to pay more attention to the sky! And if it wasn't dawn twilight when you saw this bright thing, then you REALLY need to pay more attention to the sky, because there are all kinds of interesting things there that you are not noticing. Satellites and airplanes and balloons and meteors and odd clouds and lightening and planets and sometimes things you cannot identify.

Answer 3

Say what?

While Comet Holmes is indeed bright (as comets go) to the casual observer it looks like a slightly fuzzy star in Perseus. Nothing more.

It's obviously a comet if you look at it with binoculars or a telescope. Have you done this?

Edit: the orbital parameters are widely available from all the usual sources. But how many people could actually do anything with them? Or even know what the numbers mean?

Answer 4

Poor Trolling, Elaine. Pretty poor trolling.

Next!

Answer 5

I personally know Dr. Lewis.

Its a comet.

Answer 6

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool ufologist but that is quite patently a comet.

Answer 7

And of course you have detailed knowledge of what constitutes 'normal' in terms of celestial phenomena?

Answer 8

"way too bright to be normal"????

So you're an astrophysicist now? I think I'll take their word over yours...

Answer 9

It's all right. They aren't going to do anything to you that women aren't made for, anyway.

Answer 10

lock your doors, they r coming for u!