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Magazines? Magnitudes? Magnesium (or other alloy wheels)? Magnetos? Magnums? Magnets?
Help me out.
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Please make yourself comfortable. Now
Astronomers gauge brightness in heavenly bodies by a thing called "magnitude". If a star is 100 time brighter than another it is 5 mags greater. So a million times greater works out as 15 mags. Generally stars have negative magnitudes which get towards zero magnitude when brighter. |
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Thanks for explaining the jargon. I know what you're talking about now: Comet Holmes.
I was confused because I thought some paranoid types had already assigned the brightening to NASA, but I guess maybe not the specific detail you're waiting for: as in topic Comet Holmes paranoia.
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Thanks for the link, I musta missed that but
I got to hear of the comet in December mostly and it seemed strange having a great outgassing when away from the Sun. It does not even get very close. Pictures show the "catherine wheel" effect from a spinning nucleus. Dont think there has been anything similar in the last few hundred years but I may be wrong on that. |
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Not that we have. Um, I can neither confirm nor deny... Now, Catherine wheel? Oh, Catherine wheel. I never knew the name. I never even knew St. Catherine was martyred on a wheel. I didn't even know there was a St. Catherine. I'm going straight to Hell, aren't I?
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