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Put your goggles on for safety today. i brought my best approximation of a comet this morning. so i have a hunk of dry ice. and i'm going to actually put it in this beaker, which i'm going to fill with water. now the dry ice is about 100 degrees below zero. the water is at room temperature. what would you predict would happen to the water? >> it will turn like a dry, icy dirt ball. should i fill it full? >> halfway. >> halfway, okay. >> so i have my hunk of dry ice. again, it's about 100 degrees below zero, room temperature. most folks would predict that the water would just freeze because you...

Not be the record breaker of comets passing the sun. comet in 1992 passed within 3 million miles of the sun. that was a really big deal. well, today comet ison passes about 600,000 miles from the surface of the sun. so they -- not only is the only thing roasting today is your turkey. the comet may be roasting today, too. >> for those of us that don't know, what is a comet? >> it's basically a frozen chunk of gas, water, sand, a few rocks. it's basically a very snowy dirt ball going around the sun. and it only acquires a tail when it gets close enough to the sun for the volatiles in the comet, ...

Name can find a place in politics. >> holiday turkeys, such as popcorn, have been presented to presidents going all the way back to abraham lincoln, but it was president kennedy who was the first to spare one. none received an official pardon until president h.w. bush uttered the world in 1989. >> now, beyond the turkey, eating it, i mean, have you heard about comet ison. it has been coming our way for a million years now. it's here. this is time lapse video from nasa. tomorrow, while you're eating said turkey or whatever you so choose, it will fly perilously closely around the sun. ifsurvives...

Flying around the sun. it's going to get bright. and it could be very close. it could be the coolest thing around christmas if it survives, but it's ice groing to the sun. >> not a good mix. >> not the best thing you can do. you want to go around maybe saturn. it's colder out there. as it goes by tomorrow morning, wake up before sunrise, look to the east, you may be able to see it. kind of looks like that. there's comet ison over there. it has to fly around the sun. if it makes its way around the sun and survives and comes out the other side, all of a sudden in december, it's going to be reall...

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