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If you don't buy that statement, what do you think is the cause of the million times increase in brightness of the Comet?

Well, you asked that already in this thread, so I'm guessing you missed Montalk's post earlier where he said: "Given that it orbits between Mars and Jupiter, I am guessing that its sudden brightness increase was caused by a collision with an asteroid belt object. If true, that might alter its course."   Nobody can really know for certain, but that's a good a theory as any, colliding with an asteroid belt object.  Especially considering that comet Holmes apparently does this brightening thing periodically in its history.  Possibly indicating that every time it swings through that area it collides with something there.

The scientific explanation given for why it would then brighten is because the collision causes holes and chunks in the comet, and then explosive outgassing (? is that the term?) takes place - like what you see in the movie "Deep Impact."  And maybe that's the case.  But maybe there are other things that can go on with comets.  And I'm still not fully buying the whole ice tail thing.   Just seems odd that such a simple small thing like ice could produce the huge sweeping tails that we see.  But who knows.  I'm not an astronomer.  And I'm naturally suspicious of anything they tell us. 

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/holmes.html

I'm no astronomer, so what do I know, but somehow I don't quite buy this statement:

"This amazing eruption of the comet is produced by dust ejected from a tiny solid nucleus made of ice and rock, only 3.6 km (roughly 2.2 miles) in diameter."

I mean sure, maybe so, because again what do I know, but doesn't that just seem, oh I don't know....a little weird?   A little far fetched?  That some tiny nucleus of ice can cause a dust cloud larger than the sun??????  I think there's more to comets in general.  Didn't the C's say something about comets??  haha  I'm always thinking "Yeah, well, what did the C's say, huh??  huh????"      Tom's telling me that James McCanney (sp) who wrote the Surviving Planet X books said that comet tails aren't caused by their melting ice, but rather an electrical interaction.   I could buy that, because the idea that some little chunk of ice could cause such humongous sweeping glowing tails that trail behind for thousands of miles and which are so clearly visible in our night sky doesn't seem right.  I've never felt comfortable with the explanations of what comets are and how they work, the same way I was a little kid going yeah RIGHT oil is caused by the rotting remnants of dinosaurs.     

But again, what do I know......

Well, here are some interesting observations:

(from last night)

"Look..the sky is full of ions..they are coming"
http://www.briansprediction.com/dd/6141.htm

Then if you look at his next dream, it says:

"look back one year"
http://www.briansprediction.com/dd/6142.htm

Ok, so looking back almost one year to the day, you find this dream:

"the universe is female, comets are male"  Basically states that life on earth came from the comet Hally, and life was deposited as seeds inside some sort of newly discovered carbon vessel that protected the seeds during the travel to earth.  Also states where to find life elsewhere...look back in time to when comet Hally came crossed the tail of another comet.  Following the track of this comet, and you will find life...it is much closer than we think"
http://www.briansprediction.com/dd/4584.htm

He had this dream either the day before or the day of Holmes becoming super bright:

"look in the sky for the light - they are coming -- n star energy field, FA, IONS are the answer to the mystery, 6, 6, 6, 3327 -- 6129, 3169, HS4"
http://www.briansprediction.com/dd/6102.htm

There are various other dreams which seem to tie in, over the last year, but I haven't dug them up yet.

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Given that it orbits between Mars and Jupiter, I am guessing that its sudden brightness increase was caused by a collision with an asteroid belt object. If true, that might alter its course.

Or maybe it's not Comet Holmes at all, but the remnants of a Goa'uld mothership!

Mystery comet explodes into brightness

A once-faint comet has made a sudden leap from obscurity to centre stage. Comet 17P Holmes, now visible to northern hemisphere residents, increased its brightness by a factor of one million this week, going from magnitude 17 to 2. This makes it visible to the unaided eye as well as binoculars and telescopes, offering a unique viewing opportunity for sky watchers.

‘This is a terrific outburst,’ said Brian Marsden, director emeritus of the Minor Planet Centre, which tracks known comets and asteroids. ‘And since it doesn’t have a tail right now, some observers have confused it with a nova. We’ve had at least two reports of a new star.’

Comet Holmes is located in the constellation Perseus and is visible for most of the night. In fact, for observers at the latitude of Boston, the comet is circumpolar, never setting below the horizon. In appearance, it resembles a fuzzy, yellowish star. The comet could fade in a matter of days or weeks, so astronomers recommend that viewers take a look now. Sky charts showing where to look for the comet are online at 1 and 2.

Amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes, who was looking at the Andromeda galaxy at the time, discovered Comet Holmes in 1892. The comet has presented a mystery to astronomers ever since. It likely was undergoing a similar outburst when discovered, since it reached 4th magnitude and was faintly visible to the unaided eye. After fading, it brightened again by a factor of 100 in January 1893 before fading again for good.

The comet orbits the Sun once every 7 years at a distance of about 200 million miles (compared to Earth’s 93-million-mile orbit). As a result, it was re-observed in 1899 and 1906 before being lost for nearly six decades. Based on a prediction by Marsden, the comet was recovered in 1964.

‘Since then, it’s been behaving well — until now,’ says Marsden.

On 23 October, the comet was a dim 17th magnitude, 25,000 times too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. One day later, it had brightened to 7th magnitude, and the most recent observations peg it at magnitude 2 to 3: an increase of a factor of one million. (The magnitude scale used by astronomers is logarithmic.)

‘When the Deep Impact probe hit Comet 9P Tempel, there was almost no change in brightness,’ says Marsden. ‘This outburst by Comet Holmes is extreme!’

Indeed, the outburst has left experts scratching their heads. How could a tiny comet, whose nucleus is no more than two miles across, grow so bright so fast? Perhaps a crack opened in the comet’s surface, exposing fresh ice to the sun and causing an explosive eruption of dust and gas. No one knows for sure. Undoubtedly, professional astronomers will be studying it closely in the weeks to come.

Sky coordinates for Comet 17P Holmes can be found on the Minor Planet Centre website at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemeri … 017P.html.

And from other sources:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observin … 75326.html

http://cometography.com/pcomets/017p.html

http://www.spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_holmes.html