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Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by ALOSTSOUL
You should be able to see it with binoculars. This isn't like Halley though where all you have to do is walk outside and look up.
Originally posted by amongus
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by operation mindcrime
yes, i assume it is. what i said in the op is what my source told me. thats all. i'm not an expert on any of this. i'm presenting you with what i know.
"YOU know about the comet elenin?!?, nasa is worried it will hit the space station"
Riddle me this....if the comet is going to be so close that it might hit the ISS, wouldn't your "source" have said they are worried it will hit earth? I mean, forget the ISS...if it gets close enough to be a risk to a space station, the earths gravitational pull will draw it into the atmosphere, correct? So why the F would they care about the ISS?!
Originally posted by Char-Lee
Originally posted by amongus
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
reply to post by operation mindcrime
yes, i assume it is. what i said in the op is what my source told me. thats all. i'm not an expert on any of this. i'm presenting you with what i know.
"YOU know about the comet elenin?!?, nasa is worried it will hit the space station"
Riddle me this....if the comet is going to be so close that it might hit the ISS, wouldn't your "source" have said they are worried it will hit earth? I mean, forget the ISS...if it gets close enough to be a risk to a space station, the earths gravitational pull will draw it into the atmosphere, correct? So why the F would they care about the ISS?!
Because that was their Bug Out spot!
Comet 2010 X1 (Elenin) will pass ~0.027 AU from the STEREO-B spacecraft ...
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by silversight
OK....
Comet 2010 X1 (Elenin) will pass ~0.027 AU from the STEREO-B spacecraft ...
Fine. 0.027 AU. One AU is ~93,000,000 miles.
(Okay...technically defined as 92,956,000 miles. I rounded up. In kilometers, 149,600,000).
So....simple math shows that the "0.027 AU" is about 2,500,000 miles. Two and a half million. Miles.
Roughly ten times the distance from Earth to the Moon. In astronomical terms, sure it's close....a "near miss" (or "near hit", if you prefer). But certainly nothing ot "worry" about.
I hope it does come close and sweeps past stratigacaly dropping deadly debri directly onto Rothschilds evil old head.
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
"these are my calculations, but I've revised the 0.24AU's down to 0.0004617 AU's on 21.42pm 16th Oct 2011 (pretty god dam close!)"