[Orlando]

I need more data to get a better picture, but according
to chart. On May 17th Comet Linear C/2002 tail hits the Earth, and it's orbit brings it between Earth and Venus,but
don't know the distance yet.

[Judith Anne]

Okay, that makes it clearer. I did see on the animation, the Earth passing through the tail, although nothing about the distance involved from the head. Thanks for supplying the date. I apologize for my ignorance, but what is the name of that particular comet?

Thank you for your extremely interesting posts. I'm looking forward to the updates, this is amazing. It's surprising that there's nothing in other media about it.

[CyberCowboy777]

Is there any other data to back up this animation? Has NASA released any predictions of the effect of passing though the tail of a comet?