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PanStarrs is still far away, at about the height of the orbit of Jupiter. He moves toward the sun and is closest to the Sun reached in early 2013. Then he will be their closer than Mercury, and if we're lucky, we can see it at sunset on the horizon. The earth does he not suggest there is absolutely no risk. But probably PanStarrs will appear in the relevant Internet forums and YouTube videos as soon as next to cultivated land, new specter ...
Originally posted by jonnyc55
Found this on the internet, two astronomers discovered a new comet which will hit the Sun in spring of 2013.
Originally posted by 7654321
Originally posted by jonnyc55
Found this on the internet, two astronomers discovered a new comet which will hit the Sun in spring of 2013.
Don't know if Paco*** is a native speaker, going by the translation not - so to clarify - as I've read the source in German - the author clearly states - the comet is only coming CLOSE TO THE SUN NOT HITTING IT - and he also speculates about whether this comet will stir a new hysteria similar to Elenin...
Originally posted by miniatus
Even if it hit the sun, the Sun is massive and extremely hot.. I'm not sure what kind of damage it could do unless the comet were truly massive in size.. kind of like tossing a pebble at a 400lb man?