[BenLurkin]

ping

[Jeff Chandler]

Bernardinelli-Bernstein; wasn’t she the girl who married EVH?

[adorno]

Scientists have only spotted a handful of comets active so far from the sun, where temperatures are still too cold for, say, water ice to turn to vapor, a typical type of cometary activity.

That's because it's not a comet.

It's an inter-galactic vessel, with an exhaust system which emulates water vapor tails of comets.

[alexander_busek]

Looking in vain for a revelatory sentence to the effect of:

"Scientists claim that it will be the 'Comet of the Century,' far outshining even Venus, and with a tail spanning a quarter of the nighttime sky. Yes, viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a really spectacular astronomical show..."

or

"Scientists point out that, due to its orbital characteristics, the comet - though extremely large - will be positioned behind the Sun (from Earth's perspective) when it reaches perihelion. At best, some observers in the Southern Hemisphere using good field glasses might be able to make it out as a dim, fuzzy object before it is engulfed by the glare of the Sun."

Regards,

[Reno89519]

NOT UNTIL 2031. What a waste of time and disappointment, especially since you have to read or skim all the way to the end of the useless article to find out WHEN it will be approaching the Sun.

[Red Badger]

Comet B-B.......................

[Nateman]

Closest approach is 2031. It will still be beyond the orbit of Saturn. Not enough time to send out a probe to meet it.

[PIF]

In case any one was wondering :

“When the survey was operating, however, the comet was already closer - only 25 AU from the sun by 2017. (According to the orbital calculations, the closest Bernardinelli-Bernstein will come to the sun is about 11 AU - still more distant than Saturn’s orbit - in 2031.)”

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OT :
Sept. 15: SpaceX will use a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft to launch the first all-civilian orbital mission, known as Inspiration4. It will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Oct. 16: NASA will launch its Lucy mission to study the Trojan asteroids. It will lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.

Oct. 31: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-3 mission, the third operational astronaut flight to the International Space Station. On board will be NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Thomas Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer. (The fourth crewmember has not yet been announced). It will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Nov. 17: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Nov. 24: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, at 1:58 a.m. EST (0658 GMT).

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to lift off in late November from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket.

Dec. 4: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon cargo resupply mission (CRS-24) to the International Space Station. It will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

It’s worse than Watergate!

(Carl Bernstein)