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>Although the "blob" is about 3.5 times fainter than the brightest portion
>at the nucleus, the lump appears brighter because it covers a larger area.
>The debris follows a spiral pattern outward because the solid nucleus is
>rotating like a lawn sprinkler, completing a single rotation about once
>per week.
End of NASA article.

> As you may all know, we are now passing into the zone of danger
> since we are less than 0.1 AU (at 9 million miles) from the
> path recently taken by HB. It was giving off a million tons
> of CO a day not long ago and probably has been doing so for
> thousands of years, not to mention the CO2, H20 HCN and graphite.
> Anyway, by Jan 4 every year from now on we might have the
> inception of a new "twelve days of Xmas" when to put a charm
> on the crossing they hung up gold and silver ornaments for
> protection.

>So no need for gloom, the arc has been sent as a sign that we
>will be saved from the rapture (euphoria of CO poisoning) and
>the babel effect (speech centre damage from CO). Dear friends,
>please note that the real crackpots out there say the same things,
>but they never seem to get the probable dates right.  : )  I do
>urge one and all to keep your houses as airtight as possible
>for the next month. Just to be sure.
HB was NEVER giving off a million tons of CO every day.
The fact is that anyone who keeps their house airtight for a
month during the winter may well get carbon monoxide poisoning.
But it will probably be from your advice to do so, not from any
comet!
I recommend that everyone keep their homes as well ventilated as
possible at all times, especially in the winter when heating
devices are in use to avoid the possibility of carbon monoxide
poisoning and not to listen to potentially dangerous advice.
Aloha
Tom Burnett
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