Massive Comet, C/2014 UN271 Is NOT — Repeat ‘NOT’ — Hurtling Towards Earth; It Is BUT Media Clickbait.

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by Anura Guruge
on April 14, 2022

From ‘Google News‘. Click to ENLARGE.
From JPL. Click to ENLARGE. Annotations are mine. Note, it is not even coming as close as Saturn — & Saturn is a long, long, long way out. See, you can’t even see Earth’s orbit at this scale.

Yes, C/2014 UN271 is big & it is entering the planetary region of our Solar System. But, it is on an orbit that keeps it way, way, way, way away from the Earth. Please, please study that diagram above. Note that its orbit keeps it even further away from the Sun & Earth than even Saturn — & Saturn (on average) is 840 million miles away. Nearly 9.5 times the Earth-Sun distance! Let me even say it in Light Years to express that it is NOT close — 0.00015 light years.

It is NOT — I repeat ‘NOT’ — hurtling towards the Earth.

It is not even hurtling towards the Sun.

It is way out there, 840 million miles away. [The Sun, in comparison, is 90 million miles away.]

And just in case you are wondering, I do know a thing or two (or four) about comets. SMILE. And that was my 5th book on comets.

Click image for Amazon listing for book.

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