Doomsday Comet
COMET CORPSE: “Doomsday Comet” Elenin was briefly famous for inaccurate predictions that it might hit Earth. Instead it disintegrated as it approached the sun last month. (Doomsday canceled.) Over the weekend, Italian astronomer Rolando Ligustri spotted the comet’s remains. It’s the elongated cloud in this Oct. 22nd photo of the star field where Elenin would have appeared if it were still intact.
Another team of astronomers–Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero and Nick Howes–spotted the cloud on the same night. At first they were skeptical. “The cloud was extremely faint and diffuse,” says Guido. “We wondered if it might be scattered moonlight or some other transient artifact.” But when the team looked again on Oct. 23, the cloud was still there. A two-night blink animation shows that the cloud is moving just as the original comet would have. Note: Some readers have noticed a fast-moving streak to the to the lower right of the debris cloud. That is an unrelated asteroid, 2000 OJ8 (magnitude 14), which happened to be in the field of view at the same time as the cloud of Elenin.
More information about this discovery and continued tracking of the “comet corpse” may be found at the Remanzacco Observatory Astronomy Blog.
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Meanwhile, here’s what Old Sol has to say about it:
There are no large coronal holes on the Earthside of the sun. Credit: SDO/AIA.
He’s looking fairly spiffy, though, with all those spots. Even without any coronal holes. He’d be the first to point out, you can’t have everything all at once. You’ve got to spread things out some.
There’s unanimity among the celestial bodies, whatever Gods are, the Coincidence Coordinators and other interested parties that there’s only one shot at destroying the earth. Ramming comets, asteroids into it, hitting it with phantom planets and galaxies, having some unexpected thing explode inside it, those options just don’t have enough drama and class to hold up under close scrutiny. They’re holding out for something better.
Mark it on your calendar if you can figure out what it is.
Old Jules
So Far From Heaven 
interesting (~_~)
Hi zendictive. I’m obliged for the visit and your comments. Gracias, Jules
I recall reading a bit about that comet. It says a lot about the folks who make all the noise regarding illusory threats, then never mention later everything’s okay, that they might have been mistaken. They are too busy hyping the next doomsday.
Hi Ed. Good seeing you here. Maybe next time they’ll be right without having predicted it. Unlikely though it seems, something could do something if we don’t look out and predict a lot. Gracias, Jules
That was close on a galactic scale.
These days I’m living more on an Ant’s scale.
Oldfool: Thanks for coming by. The ants. Yeah, I expects you’re right. Gracias, Jules