Seems that there is a conspiracy of sorts brewing over this comet. Apparently, that evil organization, NASA, is up to it's old tricks again, lol.

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"Some have suggested that the reason for Comet Holmes sudden brightening means it was impacted by an asteroid or that NASA shot an explosive device into it as they did with the Tempel Comet in 2005. Many are questioning the coincidence of the Space Shuttle launch occurring within hours of the sudden change in appearance of the comet. And others have implied that sending a comet into the earth, and guiding it as was practiced with Comet Tempel, would achieve the New World Order agenda of depopulation without the messiness of a nuclear bomb."

http://www.americanchronicle.com/art...rticleID=41508

This article pretty much covers most of the woo thoughts concerning this outburst. Interesting how the absence of information leads to such thoughts by people (who were probably looking for a conspiracy in the first place, lol)

You can be sure the thread on ATS is going to be full of some ripe conspiracy for sure:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread312002/pg1

Thoughts? Did NASA ram it with a probe? Is it planet X inbound, it is really head for us instead of away, are we all doomed?

And please ignore the fact that it did roughly the same thing when it was discovered over a century ago. Never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy opportunity

On a serious note, what do you think caused the change in brightness magnitude? I don't have anything constructive to add to any logical explanation, but I can be pretty sure NASA didn't cause it