Sunday, March 13, 2011

Comet Elenin closest to Earth on October 16, 2011

Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010. It approaches earth every 11,100 years. On September 25, 2011 it will lie between the Sun and Earth. Around Oct 29, 2011 Earth will pass through the tail.

Do not show up on NEO

PlanetaryDefence.com
JPL orbit
Observations
Influence on giant planets - Relatively serious changes in orbital eccentricity began in 2004 when the comet crossed the orbit of Uranus

Size cover up - Video
The following quote was copied from NASA's  'Buzz Room' and since this quote was made public the Buzz Room OFFLINE: ""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!)"









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