Gigantic Comet Approaching From Outer Solar System May Be The Largest Ever Seen

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 | MICHELLE STARR

[Red Badger]

... will approach no closer to the Sun than just outside the orbit of Saturn....They think...................

[HighSierra5]

A miss is as good as 900 million miles.

[xp38]

Oort cloud is one the cooler astronomy terms.

[jerod]

Then again... Maybe it will hit some other unearthly object on its the way towards the sun... Change direction and destroy the earth... That’s the great thing about ‘science’... It’s never settled, until it’s settled.

[Red Badger]

A lot of things can change between now and 2031.

It could hit some unseen object that knock it off course or it could break apart..................

[Renfrew]

The asteroid that smoked the dinosaurs was 6 miles wide. This one is close to 100.

If it hits the Earth it would be the end times.

[dynachrome]

I welcome our new alien overlords.

[Grey182]

“That’s not. moon!”

[PIF]

... will approach no closer to the Sun than just outside the orbit of Saturn....They think hope, with all fingers crossed, that the planet killer's orbit is not perturbed ...................

[Richard Axtell]

Somebody, somewhere has a bad feeling about this.

[blueunicorn6]

Thar she blows!

It’s the great white comet!

[Red Badger]

Comet be racis..........................

[Red Badger]

If it were on a collision course with Earth would they tell us?..........................

[JackFromTexas]

“Somebody, somewhere has a bad feeling about this.”

Two other extra-solar objects have passed through our system recently, why not a third? Although it is bigger . . .

The Ramans do everything in threes.

[Deaf Smith]

If the comet has not been in our solar system in 3 million years, what distance has our solar system moved in the spiral arm of the Milky Way in that same amount of time?

[Red Badger]

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/AngelaChan.shtml

[pas]

in that we have detected it before it comes within Uranus’s orbit, Mine does not have an orbit.

[seowulf]

If the comet has not been in our solar system in 3 million years, what distance has our solar system moved in the spiral arm of the Milky Way in that same amount of time?

Approximately 1.26×10E16 miles. Somebody check my math.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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[SantosLHalper]

Probably not.
They would be afraid that we’d find out about the rocket that they’re building to escape, when the time comes.