Comet ELEnin !

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:17

Comet ELENIN was discovered late last year and is due to come near earth later this year.

- Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) was discovered during routine survey of the sky on Dec. 10, 2010. The work was conducted at the independent Russian remote observatory ISON-NM, which operates on Asteroid Program of the Russian project ISON (International Scientific Optical Network, formerly - PulKON, "Pulkovo cooperation of optical observers").

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[TW]Sponge · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:18

I smell B.S

AGD · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:20

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:20

there is nothing about it's size yet. *tin foil hat on* I wonder why that is? Do they know and are not telling us? *tin foil hat off*

http://stargazerslounge.com/space-news/123043-comet-elenin-something-look-forward-next-year.html

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:23

sponge999 said:
I smell B.S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2010_X1

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1

neodude · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:34

badcompany said:
It also on elliptical orbit now that sounds familiar too

I though all comets had elliptical orbits? That being the reason you only see them now and again.

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:42

neodude said:
I though all comets had elliptical orbits? That being the reason you only see them now and again.

Among the observable hyperbolic and parabolic comets (those that come from the Oort cloud) this one has the smallest perihelion distance and the smallest inclination to the ecliptic plane.

Dunks · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:47

What the hell is 3,600 year? And how does 38,000 years even resemble that? :|

doofer · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:54

badcompany said:
~38,000 yr sounds like 3600 yr??

I predict more people would die from laughing at the OP than they ever would from this Comet.

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:54

Dunks said:
What the hell is 3,600 year? And how does 38,000 years even resemble that? :|

its got a 3 and a 0 in it and is dividable 10.5555556 times

GreatAuk · 13 Feb 2011 at 18:58

Pfft common knowledge. However, this is just a distraction - the ACTUAL cause of our future extinction is being kept hushed up by the US government. True Story.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:00

Elenin...sounds like a Muslim terrorist elf.

Grandmaster Fap! · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:00

GreatAuk said:
Pfft common knowledge. However, this is just a distraction - the ACTUAL cause of our future extinction is being kept hushed up by the US government. True Story.

I read this on AboveTopSecret so it's gotta be tru bro.

Lashout_UK · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:06

We can take off and nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.

Grandmaster Fap! · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:14

Wait, thats why the shuttle was delayed, it's being preped with lazers and nOOks and obviously Bruce Willis is being trained!

Cosimo · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:23

The nutters have got hold of it:

http://thealienproject.blogspot.com/

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:31

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010%20X1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb

press >> to run the orbit viewer :eek:

sigma · 13 Feb 2011 at 19:32

Send them back!

Damn Muslim aliens coming here invading our planet. :mad:

yhack · 13 Feb 2011 at 20:24

Bruce Willis has got us covered, it's fine.

badcompany · 13 Feb 2011 at 20:43

A few facts about the comet day its nearest, how near and how fast is travelling.

Date/Time (TDB) 2011-Oct-16 07:27
Time Uncertainty(days_HH:MM) 05:28
Nominal Distance (AU) 0.241332364626758
Minimum Distance (AU) 0.230813417291942
Maximum Distance (AU) 0.251925472211564
V-relative (km/s) 23.7490442710937

All joking aside it should be a good watch, I can remember seeing Hale-Bopp I was working nights at the time and it was pretty impressive stuff.