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4 Comets now!!!! WTF? Panstarrs,Lemmon,Ison,Enke.Huge Media Cover-up.
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4 comets...? Pfffft. No worries... The Oort Cloud probably contains 0.1 to 2 trillion icy bodies in solar orbit. Occasionally, giant molecular clouds, stars passing nearby, or tidal interactions with the Milky Way's disc disturb the orbits of some of these bodies in the outer region of the Oort Cloud, causing the object to fall into the inner solar system as a so-called long-period comet. These comets have very large, eccentric orbits and take thousands of years to circle the sun. In recorded history, they are observed in the inner solar system only once. In contrast, short-period comets take less than 200 years to orbit the sun and they travel approximately in the plane in which most of the planets orbit. They are presumed to come from a disc-shaped region beyond Neptune called the Kuiper Belt, named for astronomer Gerard Kuiper. The objects in the Oort Cloud and in the Kuiper Belt are presumed to be remnants from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. The Kuiper Belt extends from about 30 to 55 AU and is probably populated with hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 km (62 miles) across and an estimated trillion or more comets. [ link to solarsystem.nasa.gov] Quoting: Waterbug 4 Comets,Pffft no worries.? These 4 Comets are coming into our solar system,this year,are you aware that everyone with half a brain knows that the Universe is full of flying rocks? So what has that got to do with the 4 Comets coming to this solar system this year,rocket scientist guy? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 35009456 ... sarcasm... Did you see what I bolded, dude.. or dudette..?
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