Thank you for the kind words, but tell them that! The more they hear from their listeners how much they like hearing from me, the more they will have me on.

30+ years working on refrigerated trucks and trailers, it has paid well, in many ways it has pigeon holed me, but I am working with my hands basically doing 7th grade science all day, the work is varied from rebuilding engines to repairing leaks and everything in between, Thanks Blair!

Thank you both for your answers, I was aware that the solar wind is what pushes a comets tail away from the sun, this is actually a great mission and the pics are nothing like I have ever seen before.

“Where does the moisture go?” First it forms the coma around the nucleus, which is essentially the nucleus’s thin atmosphere. Then, as the comet drops closer to the sun, the sun’s solar wind pushes against this and actually overrides the nucleus’s very weak gravitational field, pushing these evaporates away from the nucleus to form the comet’s tail.

This is why every comet tail doesn’t trail behind the comet in line with its movement through space but instead always points away from the sun. It is the solar wind that is pushing it deeper into space.

One of the more sublime benefits of humanity’s space exploration effort is that it turns lights in the sky into places we can go.

Robert may have a better answer, but my understanding is that the volatiles from the nucleus disperse into space in the coma and tail as the surface temperature rises when the comet approaches the Sun.

Very cool to see you’re an HVAC tech. I did a stint in trade school after college because when I graduated there were a lot more jobs for techs than engineers. I worked as a tech for five years before I returned to the dark side. My experience as a tech allowed me career opportunities and gave me an understanding of the field I wouldn’t have otherwise had, and I enjoyed the work.