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Washington. (Reuters) -. Comet ISON approaches its encounter with the sun, scheduled for next Thursday, November 28th, which await eager astronomers because it is a rare astronomical event seen .
ISON will
just a million miles of the sun’s surface, making experts wonder if succumb to solar storms or will survive and offer an amazing celestial spectacle.
The comet will reach its perihelion, the time that will be closest to the Sun on Thursday.
“The last time we could contemplate a comet of the Oort cloud (within the limits of the solar system) was never. hence the uncertainty of the predictions,” said Karl Battmas, the Comet Observatory ISON the team NASA, in a blog entry.
Scientists say if ISON, dubbed Comet of the Century , does not disintegrate after passing near the Sun, which is at the peak of its cycle, with numerous eruptions could peel a amazing light and be seen throughout the month of December from the northern hemisphere of the Earth.
addition to this possibility, “what makes it different and special is ISON where appropriate, of the most remote areas of the Sun’s gravity,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Division.
therefore astrochemical have the opportunity to analyze the composition of the comet ice, which will collect data on how the solar system formed 4,600 million years ago.
comet, which has been traveling for at least a million years ago, its speed increases as it approaches the sun and is expected to do so Thursday at a rate of 1.3 million kilometers (828,000 miles) per hour.
The closest distance at which the comet will pass the Earth will be about 64.3 million miles, slightly less than half the distance between Earth and the Sun
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