A massive two-mile-wide comet will be visible from Earth in late 2013, possibly appearing brighter than the moon during November and December, according to astronomers.
A massive two-mile-wide comet will be visible from Earth in late 2013, possibly appearing brighter than the moon during November and December, according to astronomers.
For all though’s who missed their flight on Hale-Bopp.
Ookla the Mok was unavailable for comment.
The comet will smack into the Sun, causing huge solar flares that will scorch the Earth to a ruined ball of ashes.
And that’s just the bright side!
I remember the high-expectation comets that have sailed by over the past 40 years or so. Not a single one lived up to the hype that the media built up.
It was sent by the bugs in the Klendathu system to wipe out Buenos Aires.
It just may be Obambas shining star limo coming to pick him and his saviours up to do the grand tour of other worlds waiting for him to screw, sorry I mean save.
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“For all thought’s who missed their flight on Hale-Bopp.”
That comment was very close to my initial thoughts reading this as well!
Maybe if some “entrepreneuring” conservative individual could come up with a Liberal Comet Religion on the quick, we could save humanity within the year!
Well indeed you are at least PARTIALLY right, dmorris! Solar flares capable of doing that would SURELY be rather bright…
Sheesh. Massive 2 mile wide. So is 1 mile inmassive? And bigger and better have been going by Earth in the last 4 billion years,and will continue for the next 5 billion,until our star goes nova.Although Hale- Poop was a nice comet.And Mr Halley had it right.
The Mayans invented zero I believe but maybe they started counting at 1 in their end of the world prediction?
I blame Harper! 😉
Oh, btw, New Year! (It won’t be happy, that much is certain)
You couldn’t be any more wrong, Paul. It’s the Borg. Trust me.
Yeah we’ll short of taking pictures who cares there is nothing we can do about if it hit so put your Armageddon movie away there is nothing we can do
The Mayans invented zero I believe…
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actually it was the Indians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_%28number%29
It may be Michelle Obama s parents the cling ons coming to pick her up
You’re right, it is nothing. BTW the Science Recorder report is nonsense in one regard – if it is brightest at magnitude 16 it won’t be remotely visible to the naked eye. Mag. -16 on the other hand would certainly be extremely bright!
No doubt the people who have recently “discovered” the wonders of the Mayan number system and calendrical system will be impressed (I made the mistake of turning on CBC FM today and was “rewarded” with some fatuous female blathering away on the subject until I turned it off) – will be very impressed. It should be easy to blow what passes with them as their brains. With a little luck some may make a voyage to it.
Wikipedia’s article is less fatuous than that of Science Recorder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2012_S1
hERE WE GO WITH ANOTHER END OF THE wORLD MONEY MAKING SCAM.
i just found a good reason to put a new digi camera attachment on my scope.
SMOD! Oh glorious SMOD, can it be that you have not forsaken us after all?
If this really pans out I’ll take back some of the nasty things I’ve been saying about the Mayans lately.
http://tinyurl.com/b2w4vtm
I remember them saying that Halley’s comet was supposed to be that bright too, yeah it was barely distinguishable from a satellite, actually the satellites were easier to see.