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Will Comet ISON Hit the Earth?
Saturday, July 20, 2013 16:34
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When we first started thinking about content for our blog, one of the first things we did was a Google search on ‘Comet ISON’.
Over and over again, the question of whether Comet ISON would hit the Earth came up.
So we thought it would be a good idea to answer that question right off the bat, and I agreed to make a video about it.
watch the video:Will Comet ISON Hit the Earth?
Image: hubblesite.org
For those who are familiar with the night sky, you already know the answer because you’ve already looked at the projected trajectory of ISON and read many blog posts about it.
Image: hubblesite.org
For you guys, I don’t think it comes as any surprise when I say the short answer to the question of ‘Will ISON hit us?’ is no.
But c’mon, don’t you want to know why?
Image: hubblesite.org
Comet ISON Interactive Orbital Diagram:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=ison;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
When you play around with the orbital diagram viewpoint controls, you can zoom in and rotate it and adjust the view angle above or below the elliptic. You can also change the date and animate the view.