Posted on 09/09/2021 9:00:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
It’s worse than Watergate!
(Carl Bernstein)
Gentlemen,
This isn’t an article (or headline for all that matter) on how to run into your backyard and see the comet.
It is about the astronomy of the comet’s discovery, and about what is known to date about the comet itself.
If you find fault with the excerpting, then that is entirely on me.
Ben
Yup. This little thing is a fart in a hurricane, by comparison.
GIANT comet is on its way! (C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein)
July 17, 2021
VisibleDark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH0tq1yAlz0
C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein - A giant icy visitor from the edge of our solar system is on its way. Thought to be a rare long-period comet that swings into the inner Solar System from the distant Oort Cloud. Astronomers estimate this comet takes roughly three to five million years to make one complete orbit of the sun.
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