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With perturbations of Comet Elenin's journey across the asteroid belt, it's orbit could bring a collision with asteroid 1993VD. This could be a serious collision with a spectacular display and a Earth directed Debris field. If a near miss, the 2 objects orbits do cross each other which could bring further perturbations putting either object on a collision coarse with Earth. So far in my search this is the closest proximity comet Elenin makes with another space object.
Originally posted by brommas
Damn, i just read it was intelligently controlled, cant be that intelligent if it is going to colide. . . . . . .
Enough of this utter utter bs please move onto something that is real.
Originally posted by Illustronic
The pothead is wrong, asteroid 1993VD is inside of the orbit of Mercury 11 Sept 2011. Wildly exaggerating the comet Elenin size and totally full of crap.
C/2010 X1 is 0.482 AU from the sun, (outside of Mercury's orbit. C/2010 X1 is 0.457 AU from the sun, inside the orbit of Mercury. C/2010 X1 Is also way below the orbital plane, while Elenin just crossed the orbital plane, they are millions of miles away from each other. And how would a debris field in the orbit of Mercury ever reach earth?