Comet Elenin is coming!

stumbled across what?

Comet Elenin may not be as glorious as Comet Hale-Bopp, but it might possibly turn into one of the best and easiest viewed comets of the year 2011.

Discovered December 10, 2010, Comet Elenin (also known as C/2010 X1 (Elenin) by Astronomers) showed up as a very faint “speck” of fuzzy haze detected on a CCD image acquired by Leonid Elenin of Moscow, by utilizing a remotely controlled telescope at the ISON-NM Observatory (H15).

In astrometrical terms, the comet was around magnitude 19 when it made its appearance through the 18 inch reflecting telescope. During the month of September 2011, the comet should become bright enough to be an easy target for backyard astronomers in North America



Read more at Suite101: Comet Elenin, Observe a Jewel of the Night Skies September 2011 [link to www.suite101.com]

They say it won't be as big as Hale Bopp but it will be one of the easiest to view comets of the year.2011
Discovered December 10, 2010, Comet Elenin now magnitude 19 but in Sept it will be mag +3.4

[link to www.skyandtelescope.com]

[link to spaceobs.org]

Last Edited by AlienJulius on 01/18/2011 09:04 AM

Yep, I have been finding all kinds of things about it.

Get the name?

Elenin

Ele = extinction level event

nin - means human in Japan

or it can be

now in november

the path

[link to www.curtrenz.com]

Looks like it may hit the Earth - also at the least we will be going through it's tail.

this may just be the ele of the Earth.

Still a lot of variables in its projected traj.

It was named for the amateur astronomer who found it.

no shit! time wave zero takes another dive around then

this thread comes up if you google comet elenin.

too bad it's weak.

O the good old days

HEY BONGHIT...You forgot the link........

Last Edited by Twizz on 08/12/2016 12:49 PM

Miss the Elenin and ISON days...

Remember when comet Elenin 'ignited' mars? That was epic and completely ignored by the lamestream media.