FAREWELL COMET LULIN

Added on March 20th, 2009 by VilaWolf | Report Post
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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.

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Dreth (#983)

16 years ago

GTFO comet

mightyattom (#5934)

16 years ago

So this hasn’t happened yet??? Forgive my lack of astronomy knowledge 🙁

nyoki (#3444)

16 years ago

I almost submitted this. I’m not sure why I didn’t. Weird.

GorillaMunch (#3699)

16 years ago

It’s inevitable but… I was Lullin’ @...nyokki: I was going to ask why Nyokki didn’t submit this image. But answer found !

Puulaahi (#4552)

16 years ago

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

multi_masked (#2246)

16 years ago

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.

GorillaMunch (#3699)

16 years ago

@...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.

Sticky (#463)

16 years ago

THERE’S A SPACESHIP BEHIND IT! QUICK, MIX UP THE KOOL-AID!

NoOneInParticular (#3134)

16 years ago

When we finally make contact with aliens, everyone will be shocked to find that they’re using wood burning boilers and vacuum tubes. 😀

Sticky (#463)

16 years ago

@...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.