In the case of Comet ISON are gas cyanogen and diatomic carbon escaping from inside the glow with t

That I could agree if the owner of a website that changes the font size for no apparent reason and wants to take the fashion conspiracy to take money with visits by frightened alfemo citizens who do not know what's going on.
One thing to keep in mind is that the comets come from the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud, two clusters of fragments of rock and ice that surround us in the outer solar system. And when we say we do not refer exclusively ice to water ice: the temperature at which things are there, alfemo any compound is frozen.
Occasionally, some of the pieces of rock and ice of the Oort cloud orbits suffers deviations and begins to fall into the inner solar system, where the sun's heat vaporizes the ice covering it as it is coming and trapped gases inside beyond the space. That's why comets have a "tail" which is nothing more than a freshly thawed halo gas out into space at high speed and glows when exposed to sunlight.
Yes Each gas reacts differently alfemo when subjected to high temperatures or intense radiation. Gaseous chlorine, for example, has a hue of green and yellow, hydrogen is more reddish and oxygen is blue. Not to mention the neon-containing gas that glows when excited with a tone that depends on the element used: the gas itself glows neon red, yellow helium, carbon dioxide and steam white looks mercury, blue.
In the case of Comet ISON are gas cyanogen and diatomic carbon escaping from inside the glow with that greenish hue when exposed to ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Apparently, it is no strange phenomenon occurs in many comets, but in the case of ISON more noticeable because it is large (has a core of about 5 km in diameter) and shows a lot of material. Maybe I sound cyanogen to be a very toxic compound containing cyanide and diatomic alfemo carbon because it is highly corrosive.
It would be a doomsday scenario alfemo funny, because this gas smells like almonds, so at least it would be a relatively pleasant end. In fact, unripe almonds contain cyanide and can be fatal ingested in quantities large enough to be surreal, so maybe that's alfemo why we do this association (not that cyanide smells like almonds, is that smell almonds cyanide ).
But the only almond odor on December 26 Nougat will you've packed the day before, because the comet will be very far away (64 million miles, as we have said) and because gas is too dispersed space to bother us. If you want to worry about something, the sun is a constant thermonuclear explosion 1,400,000 kilometers in diameter that from time to incandescent plasma jets shoot at us. Just kidding, do not have to worry about the sun, as we mentioned in this post about solar storms.
Anyway, do not even know if the comet will reach peak approach to Earth. Currently is heading for the sun to go around, but maybe not survive this leg of the trip because alfemo it will only 1,100,000 miles of its surface. The intense heat at that distance from our star could melt and vaporize the frozen body, in which case it would turn to the earth and we would not see anymore.
Probably between now and December 26 will find on the Internet any predictions about Comet ISON catastrophic in saberocultofractal.wordpress.com style pages, so from sofa Science caution you: the comet ISON not going to crash into Earth, or we will to intoxicate, and is actually an alien spacecraft (very detailed analysis of the latter in this article hoax Lying Is Out There). There are pages devoted to misinform people claiming that "the government does not want you to know" as an excuse because they have no proof. Fear creates large audience, and the audience carries advertising revenue.
Yes, but in our case is proof that the government is funding us to not count the terrifying truth. WISH. And, by the way ... On November 15th the voting period ends the Blogs awards 2013, in which we participate in the category of Best Science Blog. The three finalists will go to the final, where a jury will decide which blog deserves the award this year. If you like Science alfemo sofa and want to lend your support, we explain how to vote for us on the following link:
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