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Originally posted by MACchine
because Y2K was ABSOLUTELY REAL AND A TECHNICAL ISSUE that you have no concept or understanding
Originally posted by Laokin
We have all seen the multitude of youtube vids plotting ELEnin's orbital path around the sun. Well i am confused as to how Nasa have been able to calculate the turning point if they still do not have any idea of the size and mass of the comet.
Maybe someone out there could enlighten me!
Originally posted by Utopian
You can't. You need to know the mass and speed ... you can't do the math.
scientists pointed out that the comet is a mere 3-mile-wide glob of ice with no magnetic field and that it won't even pass very near Earth — and that plate tectonics, not comets, cause earthquakes
In fact, Elenin is a textbook comet; it has visible "coma," or nucleus, and a long tail made of vaporizing ice
If it were a brown dwarf, "it would not have a coma or tail, because the gas cannot escape from an object with substantial gravity. In addition, if it were massive we would be seeing its gravitational influence on the orbits of the planets, especially Mars and Earth, but there is no change in these orbits
Originally posted by User8911
Actually Y2k was mostly a hoax.
Family computers since 1980 have been ready for it and sure, some really old computers in companies might have been not ready,
the worst that would of happened is to have dates loop back to the beginning.
This hoax was mostly towards people that knew almost nothing about computers.
You gotta be blind has a bat to fall in the y2k scam.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by Xcalibur254
However, as comets and asteroids are completely different I don't think you can use an asteroid chart to determine a comet's size based on magnitude.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by MACchine
What if we replace comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) by brown dwarf with mass about 0.05 of Solar mass? This video demonstrate time interval from 2000 to 2020 years. As you can see, dramatic changes in the orbit of Saturn would have started 3 years ago. But at this time all planets are on it’s nominal orbits. I think myth about “brown dwarf instead comet Elenin” is debunked. You can see that by yourself.
Now go read the OP again and keep on reading it over and over until you understand what it is getting AND THEN ADDRESS that because HAVE address the issues of the OP