Comet Dives Into Sun: STEREO, SOHO Spacecraft Catch Crash

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Comet Dives Into Sun: STEREO, SOHO Spacecraft Catch Crash

ScienceDaily (May 24, 2010) — Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with

Using instruments aboard NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft, four post-doctoral fellows at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory were able to track the comet as it approached the sun and estimate an approximate time and place of impact. STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory), launched in 2006, consists of identical spacecraft orbiting the sun, one ahead of Earth and one behind Earth, providing a stereo view of the sun.

The researchers then looked at data from the ground-based Mauna Loa Solar Observatory in Hawaii, and found images in the predicted spot of what appears to be a comet approaching the edge of the sun from behind the solar disk.

"We believe this is the first time a comet has been tracked in 3-D space this low down in the solar corona," said Claire Raftery, a post-doctoral fellow newly arrived at UC Berkeley from Dublin's Trinity College.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100524203306.htm

It was really aliens from planet X (not related to DU's project X) shooting a probe into the sun (where they hope to set up a secret base).

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1. That. Is. Awesome. nt.