Soldato
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Relax. It's not 2012 so this comet won't kill us.
Urrmmm, that's a load of numbers and stuff nobody understands mate. Still B.S will never happen.
Right now, odds are that Comet Elenin will become an easy target for binoculars around mid-August and reach naked-eye visibility for a couple of weeks around perihelion. The comet's elongation from the Sun shrinks to just 1° following perihelion, but soon thereafter the comet gets enough separate to position itself nicely for viewing in the predawn sky.
Amateur astronomer (and comet discoverer) Leonid Elenin lives near Moscow and is an accomplished optician who likes to observe asteroids and variable stars.
Tenagra Observatories
Moreover, it's traveling very near the ecliptic plane, and as it sweeps close to the Sun its sky location won't stray far from the ecliptic until mid-September, when the path arcs slowly northwestward through Leo. That's a plus for skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere.
Finally, because Comet Elenin passes between the Sun and Earth, there's a chance its dust tail might "light up" (via forward-scattered light) due to the large Sun-comet-Earth angle and put on a really good show
it has Orbital period: ~38,000 yr sounds like 3600 yr??
WHAT
I read this on AboveTopSecret so it's gotta be tru bro.
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I disagree.
Guys you loss. Keep sleepwalking.
Guys you loss. Keep sleepwalking.
Guys you loss. Keep sleepwalking.
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So how come we arent all dead yet then?Guys you loss. Keep sleepwalking.
- surely the term E.L.E gained popularity from the film Deep Impact.