We will soon see the usual suspects claiming it will kill us all.
Wait for Terral03 to post more hilarious videos online about how we should hide in a cave with him.
That is, unless he’s still hiding in a cave after Elenin fizzled out.
Huh? The sun is 800,000 miles in diameter. It is quite warm. It ain't gonna survive if it comes that close. It'll have to go by at night. ;0)
After Haley’s, Khotek and the others that have been a disappointment, I’ll believe it when I see it.
There have been some great comets in the last 50 or so years.
Kohouteck was a fizzle, but, then there was Comet West a few years later. It looked like a giant spotlight in the sky. IT was HUGH! I am SIRIUS!
Halley’s wasn’t bad either in 1986. Up to that point, it was the second brightest comet I had seen, West being the first.
Then there was the Great Comets of the 90’s Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp.
In the last few years, Comet McNaught 2006 (the great comet of 2007) and Lovejoy in 2012 have made quite a splash recently.
Will ISON make it? Who knows. They thought Lovejoy was going to disappear and it put on a great show. Just wish it would be in the evening, not, the morning.
Also, in March, look for Comet PANSTARRS. It may give us something at sunset in the middle of the month.