Parting Shots of Comet Lulin. Lulin is on a hyperbolic trajectory out of the solar system, crossing the orbit of Mars on March 29th, transiting the asteroid belt between April and August 2009, and passing Jupiter in early 2010.
FAREWELL COMET LULIN
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March 20, 2009 at 12:10 am
GTFO comet
March 20, 2009 at 12:41 am
So this hasn’t happened yet??? Forgive my lack of astronomy knowledge
March 20, 2009 at 12:50 am
I almost submitted this. I’m not sure why I didn’t. Weird.
March 20, 2009 at 1:02 am
It’s inevitable but… I was Lullin’ @nyokki: I was going to ask why Nyokki didn’t submit this image. But answer found !
March 20, 2009 at 2:13 am
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
March 20, 2009 at 2:24 am
I’m just curious why NASA didn’t try to probe it so that where the comet went maybe our probe would be able to send signals/pictures back to us and/or say hello to some aliens 1,000/billion years into the future, when we are probably going to be long gone.
March 20, 2009 at 2:34 am
@multi_masked: Which alien race would want to talk to us? We exploit everything we can to the extreme. I hope we all burn in a fireball. Screw humanity. Nothing humane about it.
March 20, 2009 at 3:03 am
THERE’S A SPACESHIP BEHIND IT! QUICK, MIX UP THE KOOL-AID!
March 20, 2009 at 4:29 am
When we finally make contact with aliens, everyone will be shocked to find that they’re using wood burning boilers and vacuum tubes.
March 20, 2009 at 6:32 am
@NoOneInParticular:
Ironically, in one of Harry Turtledove’s novels, vacuum tubes are what saves humanity’s technology. Aliens invade during WWII and they detonated nukes in the atmosphere to use the EMPs to wipe out our technology. There were no microchips at the time, so in a way, antiquated technology saved the day.
March 20, 2009 at 10:16 am
@GorillaMunch:
Agree with you 100%.
March 20, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Lol (plus a big moon!)
March 20, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Yeah, Buh Bye.
@Sticky:
I, for one, welcome our new Female space vampire overlords…
March 20, 2009 at 9:23 pm
P.S.
@nyokki: You’re slippin’ Nyokki…
March 20, 2009 at 9:49 pm
@Phyreblade: I know and am ashamed.
March 21, 2009 at 12:53 am
@nyokki: ah, don’t be too hard on yerself… Your posts are legendary…