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by postmarc
Tue May 23, 2006 4:05 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: comet fragment
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comet fragment

Concerning today's movie of the large fragment of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 as it passed the Earth, I always thought that the direction of a comet's tail was determined by solar winds. In today's movie the tail was directly behind the path of the comet. Is it just a chance that SW3 was heading di...