neat comet

[donkey]

can anybody tell me why the neat comet didn't get that much attention when it flew by the sun. There some 350,000 web pages give or take some on google when you type in neat comet, but when you hit news on google there are 0 thats right 0 news articles about it, are they not telling us the whole picture anyways ihope some one can answer this

[Canon Pete]

plenty on google ? most seem to wear tinfoil hats mind you !

[Registered users can see links. ]

as for google news , well maybe not news worthy , there have been bigger comets grazing the Sun than Comet Neat .

[sxinias]

Why the Neat commet did not get that much attention as it flew by the sun and why are there there zero news articles? That's a very easy question to answer .... because there is nothing particularly significant or newsworthy about the comet.

[donkey]

i saw an article about the sun where they took a time lap video of cme's from the sun which were very active, as neat went by there is no activity. And we have some strange things going on with our sun right now.

[sxinias]

Originally Posted by donkey

i saw an article about the sun where they took a time lap video of cme's from the sun which were very active, as neat went by there is no activity. And we have some strange things going on with our sun right now.

Really? What strange things are happening?

[zipp]

mmhmm... something rotten in Denmark...

[MotoH]

Originally Posted by sxinias

Really? What strange things are happening?

I guess it is turning Hydrogen into Helium or something silly like that!

[Ghostryderflyby]

Originally Posted by MotoH

I guess it is turning Hydrogen into Helium or something silly like that!

It's been doing that as part of it's fusion process for the last 4-5 billion years. Nothing noteworthy about that I'm afraid. [Registered users can see links. ]. The moon is chock full of the stuff since it doesn't have a protective magnetosphere and it's been absorbing it from the sun for a few billion years. It would actually be a terrific clean energy source if we could figure out how to recover it in a cost effective manner. Lot of controversy over whether we should though, or should we leave the moon pristine.

Originally Posted by donkey

i saw an article about the sun where they took a time lap video of cme's from the sun which were very active, as neat went by there is no activity. And we have some strange things going on with our sun right now.

Actually that's not at all acurate. In fact the SOHO satellite caught an[Registered users can see links. ]. I would definitely classify a coronal mass ejection possibly striking it as activity from the sun as it passed.

[Saucey12]

I definetely never hear much news about space and other astronomical events. I can only recall a few in my lifetime. All I hear about lately is the fact that nasa is getting sliced and diced financially. I am very sad to see this. Think of all the things we waste so much more money on. nasa's budget is much smaller than most all other governmental programs.

[MotoH]

NASA is so horribly over budgeted it is unbelievable. The Constellation program was a huge waste of money. Instead of using designs from 40+ years ago, NASA should be looking into more efficient forms of propulsion.

Harvesting anything off of the moon is also a huge money pit. The amount of money that would be saved by using the moons resources instead of the earths is tiny compared to the operating cost of actually getting the material to and from the moon.