The comet could reappearing ISON become a rain ... - La Vanguardia

Madrid. (EP) -. A team of astronomers has noted that throughout this week will be a new opportunity to check if the Comet ISON has survived or succumbed to the heat has definitely According to the Sun have pointed out, the rock should spend crossing the orbital plane of the Earth and be easily observed for telescopes.

possibility is that reach as a light rain meteors . Thus, they have ensured that over the next few days will be watching the sky to capture “whatever” potential left by ISON remains.

Despite this optimism, NASA reported killed since last December 11th, the comet officially after the November 28 meeting had its closest to the Sun

He explained the space agency, the data collected from this event will detect a loss of mass of the rock before reaching perihelion (closest to the orbit of a body to the Sun), which determines who has not survived .

“The ISON core size could be about five or six football fields. This small size was close to the limit of how big ISON needed to be to survive their journey around the sun,” said one of the experts who carried out this work, Alfred McEwen.

addition, we have studied the dust tail of the comet to better understand what happened. In this regard, the observations made by the Solar Terrestrial Observatory STEREO (NASA) and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory SOHO (NASA / ESA), showed that there was very little dust after the comet passed perihelion, suggesting that the nucleus of the comet had already broken at that time.

ISON comet was first seen in September 2012 and was relatively bright for a comet located a great distance from the star. Therefore, the rock became one of the year’s events and had high hopes that it would provide a beautiful show of light visible in the night sky. Some called him the comet of the century .

finally confirms what NASA had already announced it will not be the end of the legacy of ISON. Experts have pointed out that this will continue for years, as scientists continue to analyze the huge set of data collected since its discovery.

In fact, the U.S. space agency has indicated that it is the “most observed comet” of history and the data presented now have “great warranty” because the path of the comet has been followed by various agencies satellites space, as well as by amateur astronomers.