NASA reckons only a little bit of plucky Comet ISON survived a close encounter with the Sun – and judging by this space photo, we're not surprised. After reaching its perihelion during Thanksgiving, the iceball failed to reappear, at least according to the agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which captured the portion of …

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Friday 29th November 2013 22:32 GMT Anonymous Coward

Give or take a few letters, ISON is an anagram of MICROSOFT, and they look like the same fate.

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1. Saturday 30th November 2013 00:29 GMT Destroy All Monsters
  
  Fuck Imma drunk
  
  Microsoft gets treated to late-night observation campaigns?
  
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2. Saturday 30th November 2013 00:59 GMT Francis Boyle
  
  And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .
  
  linicks.
  
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  1. Saturday 30th November 2013 10:51 GMT cosymart
    
    Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .
    
    Didn't know that he had passed on.
    
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    1. Saturday 30th November 2013 11:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
      
      Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .
      
      The Vultures got him.
      
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    2. Sunday 1st December 2013 00:27 GMT Annihilator
      
      Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .
      
      "Didn't know that he had passed on."
      
      Was apparently banned and all comment history erased. Not sure if there was a specific comment that triggered it.
      
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      1. Sunday 1st December 2013 23:30 GMT Martin Budden
        
        Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .
        
        There were about a thousand specific comments which triggered it.
        
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3. Saturday 30th November 2013 05:06 GMT RISC OS
  
  The poor little comet is lucky...
  
  .... it would have been sued by apple soon.
  
  The want to trade mark iSon, iDad, iMum, and iDaughter.
  
  These are their categories of their customers, and form part of the larger iDiots group.
  
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4. Saturday 30th November 2013 11:44 GMT CmdrX3
  
  Eadon... Is that you
  
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Saturday 30th November 2013 07:14 GMT John Smith 19

dirty snowball + close proximity to sun --> dirt cloud

No doubt there's a size of comet and a minimum range from the sun that a comet would survive.

But it looks like this is not it

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1. Saturday 30th November 2013 08:45 GMT Elmer Phud
  
  Re: dirty snowball + close proximity to sun --> dirt cloud
  
  You never know -- it always amazed me how a Baked Alaska survived.
  
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  1. Saturday 30th November 2013 21:17 GMT John Smith 19
    
    Re: dirty snowball + close proximity to sun --> dirt cloud
    
    "You never know -- it always amazed me how a Baked Alaska survived."
    
    I think you'll find the thick layer of air bubbles in the whipped white might have something to do with it.
    
    A comet would need a pretty thick layer to survive that.
    
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    1. Sunday 1st December 2013 15:26 GMT brooxta
      
      Standard Baked Alaska
      
      I'll have my ISO(N) standards compliant baked Alaska now please waiter.
      
      It's probably part of Elon Musk's SpaceX business plan already. I can see the tagline already, "SpaceX: Serving sumptuous sol-scorched slices to the solar system." I'd probably buy shares in that.
      
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Saturday 30th November 2013 08:14 GMT SpeakerToAliens

If you can't stand the heat...

...stay out of the solar corona.

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1. Sunday 1st December 2013 21:16 GMT Destroy All Monsters
  
  Re: If you can't stand the heat...
  
  "You came to the wrong neighbourhood, iceball! Now you are toast."
  
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Saturday 30th November 2013 09:54 GMT Anonymous Coward

Like a snowball's chance in

Hell.

I'll get my coat now...

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Monday 2nd December 2013 09:13 GMT Torben Mogensen

Icarus

For flying too close to the sun and burning its wings, Icarus would be a better name for ISON.

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Monday 2nd December 2013 14:40 GMT Tompkinson

Sun Probe

Comet ISON died because they didn't call on the services of International Rescue. It worked for Sun Probe so I'm sure The Tracey Boys, Tin Tin (mmm original gurrl power), Thunderbirds 3 and 2, Brains and Braman could have saved the day.

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