We may or may not pass through the debris tail of the comet. Plasma cosmologists and electrical engineers simply note that due to electrical differentials between space object and space debris and the earth itself - electrical discharges could occur when such debris enters our atmosphere.
For example, at the time of the Chicago fire, we passed through the debris field of a broken up comet. The Chicago fire is the only one you read about in the history books - there were actually dozens of “spontaneous” fires that occurred all over the region at the time of the Chicago fire...
Elinin is projected to pass as close as .15 AU...which is still hundreds of thousands of miles away - way past the moon’s orbit.
So who knows, bottom line is - we’ll find out in October.
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Thanks. Point 15 AU is about 13,950,000 miles, around 50 times the distance between Earth and Moon.