Comments on: Astronomers discover “comet” bigger than the largest comets approaching inner solar system https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-discover-comet-bigger-than-the-largest-comets-approaching-inner-solar-system/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:18:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-discover-comet-bigger-than-the-largest-comets-approaching-inner-solar-system/#comment-1143050 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:18:16 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=76818#comment-1143050 2031 gives us plenty of time to lunch not one but several sample return missions.
Perhaps a beacon/seismic detector for permanent residence? With an observational satellite at a safe distance to watch the changes.

If it turns out to be mostly ice, it might be worth the effort to land a nuclear powered thruster to change its orbit early enough to use one of the planets to slow it down and capture it for for future use/study.
Some science fiction books have placed such an object from the outer solar system in the shadow of a planet for a refueling station for orbital installations and interplanetary travel.
Just dreaming…

]]> By: Patrick Underwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-discover-comet-bigger-than-the-largest-comets-approaching-inner-solar-system/#comment-1143032 Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:29:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=76818#comment-1143032 Highly recommend Martin Sweatman’s book Prehistory Decoded. He discusses the Clube/Napier hypothesis that an Oort Cloud object in exactly this size range entered the inner Solar System 30 to 40 thousand years ago, eventually decaying into the Taurid meteor stream and Comet Enke—but not before shedding bits and pieces that periodically hit the Earth, possibly causing several abrupt climate changes, including the Younger Dryas “mini-Ice Age” that Sweatman thinks may have kicked off the rise of civilization. The hypothesis has long been dismissed as pseudoscience. Looks like vindication to me.

Thanks for posting this news!

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-discover-comet-bigger-than-the-largest-comets-approaching-inner-solar-system/#comment-1142874 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:26:46 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=76818#comment-1142874 Scholtz’ Star passed us long ago…meaning that anything it perturbed may only now be coming near. Gliese 7IO is a star that may pass us less than 7OOO AU out in a million years.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-discover-comet-bigger-than-the-largest-comets-approaching-inner-solar-system/#comment-1142871 Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:21:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=76818#comment-1142871 Lets hope it doesn’t change course for the inner system.

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