Astronomy Cast 324: Sungrazers
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Comets can spend billions of years out in the Oort Cloud, and then a few brief moments of terror orbiting the Sun. These are the sun grazers. Some survive their journey, and flare up to become the brightest comets in history. Others won't survive their first, and only encounter with the Sun.
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Excellent show..Rosetta is going to be super exciting if they can land successfully
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Fraser shouldn't get rid of the kid drawing, it's cute. He should just tell his daughter to draw one of Saturn
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Anyone else find her very attractive?, slight speech slip does it for me :)
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Awww the Father's day poster is adorable!
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LOVE the Q&A app !
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is it the gravity of the sun that pulls the comets out of the oort cloud, or how does a comet get bumped out into the solar system?
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brewington
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a parallelogram binocular mount is handy
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Do you have any recommendations for a solar filter? I have a 114 Equatorial Newtonian and would love to observe the sun.
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Are there any more interesting comets projected to come through in 2014?
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Is ISON really gone?
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