OMG Something Massive Hit Our Sun!

[Realeyes]

Oh My God, something Massive hit our Sun!?!

This is my first ever thread, please be gentle, I would love to know your opinions on this. I have watched this several times and do not know what to think about this, and keep saying OMG with my jaw dropped.

This happened 1st October 2011

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKwEYieMGw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeKwE...layer_embedded

[Davidallany]

Wow, this thing must have been really big to have that much effects on the Sun.

[MorningSong]

Yes, realeyes, this "comet" was massive compare to other sungrazing comets I have seen in the past few years. Spaceweather.com claims that the comet was only discovered on Friday and had not been "named" by official agencies.....yeah.

Lasco 2 and 3 had been frozen on Sept 30 so as of yesterday, it would not upload the photograms. There were some fortunate souls who knew how to get the info and posted it on YT. I posted a couple others over at the "Sun Stuff" What's Up!" thread.

Now, today, if you go to the SOHO latest images page, you can then go to the movie theater and see more images, although some are still missing.

It appears that the huge CME that erupted after the comet impacted is from the back-side of the sun and will not be geo-effective, but other CME's around that time are Earth-bound. I base my opinion of data that is publically available, so I may be in error..... only time (and surely not NASA) will tell.

I also say "heads up" for strong EQs for the next few days.... I have documented that often sun-grazing comets are followed by such earthly things.

[ViralSpiral]

I captured an image of it

[finally there!!!]

That's amazing thanks for showing us!!!

Maybe that's why the sun is splitting the trees here in Ireland. I have never seen the weather so good here for this time of year,but who's complaining? certainly not me,I'm off to the beach in October in Ireland

Love and Respect

[Pete]

At the beginning of the vid there was another huge ejection before the comet in question came into view.

[Violet]

Posted by finally there!!! (here)
That's amazing thanks for showing us!!!

Maybe that's why the sun is splitting the trees here in Ireland. I have never seen the weather so good here for this time of year,but who's complaining? certainly not me,I'm off to the beach in October in Ireland

Love and Respect

Same here in Belgium. 27°C and it's been like this since for over a week now. Saturday we've even had 28°C in some village and that day made October the hottest October ever.
Wednesday has predicted rain.

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Posted by Pete (here)
At the beginning of the vid there was another huge ejection before the comet in question came into view.

Isn't that just regular sun explosions.

[pyrangello]

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,Newtons law-HMMMMMMMMM!

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

I found this short video...

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAn_ueu9bo4

I do feel very fortunate to be able to witness this.
Last year I would never have dreamt of seeing comets flying into the sun. Truly amazing.

[Ilie Pandia]

Hm.... that appeared to be massive! How could such a big bright object not be detected sooner!? That's very strange...

Another strange thing is that the explosion is on the other side of the hit... the Sun seems pretty quiet on the side with the "comet".

[Lisab]

Absolutely amazing thankyou Realeyes.x

[Tarka the Duck]

I read this on the space weather site:

COMET AND CME: A comet discovered by amateur astronomers on Friday, Sept. 30th, disintegrated in spectacular fashion the very next day when it plunged into the sun. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the comet's last hours. The end was punctuated by an unexpected explosion; click on the image to set the scene in motion:

Watch the movie again. The timing of the CME so soon after the comet dove into the sun suggests a link. But what? There is no known mechanism for comets to trigger solar explosions. Before 2011 most solar physicists would have discounted the events of Oct. 1st as pure coincidence--and pure coincidence is still the most likely explanation. Earlier this year, however, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched another sungrazer disintegrate in the sun's atmosphere. On July 5, 2011, the unnamed comet appeared to interact with plasma and magnetic fields in its surroundings as it fell apart. Could a puny comet cause a magnetic instability that might propagate and blossom into a impressive CME? The question is not so crazy as it once seemed to be.

[AMystic3434]

I dont know what happened. But Im very skeptical of these ameture astromonists who claim they got everything all figured out like these guys dutch and terrell. I think they are mainly just spreading fear that is not true. And all these people that believe them are just being mislead. Very bad to do that to people.

[Ineffable Hitchhiker]

Posted by AMystic3434 (here)
I dont know what happened. But Im very skeptical of these ameture astromonists who claim they got everything all figured out like these guys dutch and terrell. I think they are mainly just spreading fear that is not true. And all these people that believe them are just being mislead. Very bad to do that to people.

I feel no fear.
Just observing.
I am grateful for all the information, it is up to the individual to be discerning with the information presented.
Imagine if no one did anything, we would never be lucky enough to witness such an event happening.

[Realeyes]

Thanks everyone for your comments, I so appreciate this.

I am wondering if it is normal for a comet's tail to be so BIG? My mind boggles as to why this was only spotted last Friday - did it just suddenly 'appear' from nowhere?

Has anyone got any idea as to 'how' big this is/was? Also, a rough guess to how fast it was travelling?

And..... spinning right out of the normal box of thought - is there any possibility that this wasn't a 'comet' but something 'else' like some top secret ET technology???? Something that could dissapate the Sun's flares away from Earth, sort of like discharging a battery - but only a tempory thing?
Or could this be something even bigger and that a Space War is going on???

I am a very curious novice, I don't know much at all about this subject, so please pardon my ignorance - yet 'something' did happen; 'whatever' it is/was - it was Massive and the Sun seemed to responsed immediately IMHO.

[AMystic3434]

Posted by Ineffable Hitchhiker (here)

Posted by AMystic3434 (here)
I dont know what happened. But Im very skeptical of these ameture astromonists who claim they got everything all figured out like these guys dutch and terrell. I think they are mainly just spreading fear that is not true. And all these people that believe them are just being mislead. Very bad to do that to people.

I feel no fear.
Just observing.
I am grateful for all the information, it is up to the individual to be discerning with the information presented.
Imagine if no one did anything, we would never be lucky enough to witness such an event happening.

all Im saying is these guys probably have no idea what they are talking about and what they are looking at but they think they got it figured out. Its a delusion. If what they are talking about is true I would expect expert astronomists to come forward with this very important information. Im not talking about Nasa or main stream. Not all experts work for the government Im sure there are independent agencies or something. I wouldnt be surprised if they were just trying to get as much hits on there youtube channell as possible, im sure they have there own personal reason for that. I doubt them.

[Cjay]

It's hard to believe something that big didn't get discovered sooner. It must have been a very big magnet to cause such a massive CME. It reminds me of when a watermelon is shot, the far side gets blown out.

[MiguelQ]

Its sooo hot here in portugal, something like 30ºC in October? Never was like this...

[WhiteFeather]

Looks real to me. Its good to see Dutchsinse back. Thanks for This Awesome Post.

[Realeyes]

It is official that this is the hottest start to October ever in the UK.
Today in the UK it is 29 degrees, yesterday was even hotter 30+ degrees.
Just read the weather forecast and they are saying 'snow' expected for the end of the week! Crazy!