NASA’s Near-Earth Object Hunting Mission Spots A Comet And A Body That’s Either A Comet Or An Asteroid
On Thursday, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (Neowise) mission announced the discovery of two objects — one of which is a comet while the other is a mysterious object that seems to straddle the line between a comet and an asteroid. The comet, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, made its closest approach to Earth on Dec. 12, when it flew by … Continue reading
NASA: Humans Woefully Unprepared for Surprise Asteroid or Comet Strike
Large and potentially dangerous asteroids and comets are extremely rare, scientists said – ‘But on the other hand they are the extinction-level events.’ Humans are woefully unprepared for a surprise asteroid or comet, a Nasa scientist warned on Monday, at a presentation with nuclear scientists into how humans might deflect cosmic dangers hurtling toward Earth. “The biggest problem, basically, is … Continue reading
Large INCOMING COMET/Naked Eye Visibility by NEW YEARS EVE & Live, Night of the Comet
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Some Sungrazing Comets May Not Be Comets At All
Some comets like to play “chicken” with the sun We’ve been spoiled with comet science lately. The Rosetta spacecraft orbited Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for about 18 months and sent back daily updates on how the comet is behaving and changing. That mission is now over, but luckily there is a long-running mission that looks at sungrazers, or comets that pass really … Continue reading
Collision With a Massive Comet Will Be an Extinction Level Event Within 20 Years Claims Author
By Graham Hancock Extinction Level Event? Within the next 20 years, Earth faces a collision with the remnants of a comet big enough to end all life as we know it, according to the author of Magicians of the Gods Graham Hancock He claims the following: Within 20 years a comet big enough to end life as we know it … Continue reading
The Tunguska Event Comet Will Light The Sky With Fireballs
If we could all take a moment to put down Pokémon GO and Tinder and take a look overhead, we’d probably find the skies are full of interesting phenomena. This Halloween season was a rare treat, with UFOs over Phoenix, Arizona, mysterious green fireballs lighting up the skies over Japan, and a near-miss by a massive asteroid. Now, things are … Continue reading
The Comet that Changed Civilization – May Do It Again
On 30 September this year the first human spacecraft ever to orbit a comet was deliberately crashed onto its surface in order to get the closest possible pictures of the enigmatic celestial body. This will end its mission that began when the vessel was launched over twelve years ago. During the past two years the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe … Continue reading
Scientists May Have Found Alien Life On A Comet
A European space probe found complex and solid organic molecules, which are the building blocks of life, in dust particles surrounding a comet. The organic molecules were discovered by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe and are the first clear evidence of solid organic matter around a comet. “Our analysis reveals carbon in a far more complex form than expected,” … Continue reading
What Would Happen If Comet Swift-Tuttle Hit the Earth?
Shooting stars may fill you with child-like wonder, but these celestial showstoppers are also reminders that Earth is hardly alone in space, and some of those cosmic objects can be downright dangerous. The Perseid meteor shower, which appears every year in mid-August, occurs when Earth passes through a trail of debris left by Comet Swift-Tuttle. In 1973, based on calculations … Continue reading
Weird Star System that Scientists Have Been Checking for Aliens Just Got Weirder
Last year, scientists spotted something strange going on around a distant star. Now it turns out it’s been happening for decades, or even centuries, making it even harder to explain. There is a star, unimpressively named KIC 8462852, that sits 1,400 light-years away and seems to be relatively similar to our own sun. But whatever circles that star is so … Continue reading
