{"id":28266,"date":"2020-04-07T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28266"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T01:16:48","slug":"just-for-fun-a-chance-to-exhibit-your-hidden-superstition-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/07\/just-for-fun-a-chance-to-exhibit-your-hidden-superstition-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Just For Fun, A Chance To Exhibit Your Hidden Superstition, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Comet Atlas<\/a>, and how the superstitious thought comets brought doom upon all who saw them?<\/p>\n

I guess we stared at it a little bit too hard:<\/p>\n

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As it loses coherence.
Source: The Astronomer’s Telegram<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Comet ATLAS (C\/2019 Y4), what are you doing?\u00a0New data<\/a>\u00a0from astronomers around the world show that the once-promising comet is beginning to fade. For Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC, it could be a classic case of \u201cI told you so.\u201d\u201cQuoting myself from March 15th,\u201d says Battams, \u201c\u2018I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see Comet ATLAS start to fade rapidly and possibly even disintegrate before reaching the sun<\/em>.\u2019 I very much hope I\u2019m wrong, but Comet Elenin did something similar several years ago, holding lots of promise and then just\u2026 fizzling.\u201d …<\/p>\n

On April 6th, astronomers Quanzhi Ye of the University of Maryland) and Qicheng Zhang of Caltech reported new images of Comet ATLAS, in which the comet\u2019s core appears to be elongating\u2013\u201cas would be expected from a major disruption of the nucleus,\u201d they wrote in\u00a0an Astronomical Telegram<\/a>. …<\/p>\n

Recent measurements of the comet\u2019s position also point to trouble. Battams explains: \u201cThe comet\u2019s orbit is now being influenced by \u2018non-gravitational\u2019 forces. These forces are the result of gases lifting off the comet nucleus and causing the nucleus to move very slightly in the opposite direction\u2013sort of like a jet engine. Most active comets experience this to some degree, but ATLAS\u2019s non-gravitational forces have kicked in very abruptly and are quite strong. This supports a narrative of a small nucleus being pushed very strongly by extreme outgassing, possibly along with fragmentation.\u201d\u00a0[SpaceWeather.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The doom redounded on it, and that was all. So much for any fun for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember Comet Atlas, and how the superstitious thought comets brought doom upon all who saw them? I guess we stared at it a little bit too hard: Comet ATLAS (C\/2019 Y4), what are you doing?\u00a0New data\u00a0from astronomers around the world show that the once-promising comet is beginning to fade. For \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28268,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions\/28268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}