“Devil Comet” 3x The Size of Mount Everest Makes Way to Earth

WaPo comment so be careful !!


The celestial hailstone — which orbits around the sun every 71 years — won’t reach its closest point to Earth until 2024, whereupon it will become visible to the naked eye.

This comet will then be catapulted back into the solar system, and won’t make its cosmic comeback tour until the year 2095.

This is 12P’s second explosion since July 20, when the interstellar snowball blew its stack for the first time in 69 years.
 
They are still keeping an eye on it...

The “devil” nickname was coined in July, when astronomers spotted “horns” around its nucleus.


28 Oct 2023
 

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