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  • Largest Comet Ever Seen Heading Towards... Saturn

    From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 13 10:40:38 2022
    An earlier version of this article must have had the heading 'Largest Comet Ever Seen Heading Towards Earth', because that's what Google News calls it...

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/massive-comet-will-swing-by-the-sun-in-2031-hubble-observes-1.5860526

    but the comet won't get closer to the Sun than 10 AU.

    This means we're in no danger unless the gravity of Saturn (or Uranus or Neptune) deflects it to a new orbit that gets closer to the Sun.

    John Savard

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  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Wed Apr 13 14:33:05 2022
    On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 10:40:39 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
    An earlier version of this article must have had the heading 'Largest Comet Ever Seen Heading Towards Earth', because that's what Google News calls it...

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/massive-comet-will-swing-by-the-sun-in-2031-hubble-observes-1.5860526

    but the comet won't get closer to the Sun than 10 AU.

    This means we're in no danger unless the gravity of Saturn (or Uranus or Neptune) deflects it to a new orbit that gets closer to the Sun.

    John Savard

    Why worry?
    Did the dinosaurs worry about comets?
    Ignorance is a bliss!

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