On Tue Feb-24-2015 16:48, Damon A. Getsman (1:340/200) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    DAG>   By: Roger Nelson to All on Mon Feb 23 2015 22:15:37   
      
    RN> Astronomers are scratching their heads over an unusual comet that is   
    RN> passing by the sun.  The icy visitor to the inner solar system does not   
    RN> belong to any known family of sungrazing comets, and it appeared to be   
    RN> doomed as it made its plunge toward the sun on Feb. 19th.  Instead of   
    RN> disintegrating, however, the comet has emerged apparently intact, and   
    RN> could become a target for telescopes on Earth when it emerges from the   
    RN> sun's glare in the weeks ahead. Images and updates may be found on   
    RN> http://spaceweather.com.    
      
    DAG>   If that's from the 20th, I'm guessing that it's the same one   
    DAG> that I saw on erm...  SOHO, maybe?  Where they had a time lapse of   
    DAG> it coming from the solar NE quadrant and then looping around   
    DAG> behind to shoot towards the satellite in a much more equatorial   
    DAG> planar SW trajectory...   
    DAG>   That is pretty weird...  I would've thought the coronal hole   
    DAG> facing that way, with the ramped up solar wind and recent million   
    DAG> mile+ plasma filament with a 'stone age' shot that [luckily?] went   
    DAG> in the opposite trajectory from earth would've toasted that   
    DAG> sucker...   
      
   I would have posted that one on arrival. but my email client chose to put it   
   in the Spam folder and I just noticed it yesterday.  Also, it seems to me we   
   had a similar thing happen a few years ago when a comet was in our Soolar   
   System and was expected to burn up as it got close to the Sun, but it didn't,   
   so maybe this current one came from outside like the article hinted.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
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