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lemmy.world

That's cool as hell. Also seems super lucky to have captured that.

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Agreed, I wonder how many times something like this has been captured in such great detail before.

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kbin.social

So this seemed so very cool that I wanted to learn more. There were a few problems, however. The direction of Nishimura is traveling opposite to what this video shows. I eventually found this video is from Comet Encke back in 2007 as observed by STEREO-A. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encke\_tail\_rip\_off.ogv

Well I can't be that mad even though I was tricked because this is a really cool video and I learned some new things. Nishimura did go through a tail disconnection event. But buyer beware, eh?

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Thank you for the correction. The article I sourced this from was misleading. I've edited the title.

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So where's all that water gonna end up? Also does losing what appears to be a not inconsiderable amount of it's mass, has the orbit changed?

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April 2007 NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft watched a CME strike Comet Encke and rip its tail completely off | Spyke