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2023-10-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Devil' comet 3 times bigger than Mount Everest explodes, now heading toward Earth

[NYPOST] As if things didn’t seem apocalyptic enough already, scientists reported that a "horned" comet three times bigger than Mount Everest went kaboom! and is hurtling toward Earth.

The blast originated on Oct. 5 from 12P/Pons-Brooks a cryovolcanic — or cold volcano — comet that measures a colossal 18.6 miles in diameter, or the size of a small city, Live Science reported.
"approximately 4,289 full size refrigerators - the side-by-side ones"
For reference, Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, is 29,029 feet high — or about 5.5 miles.

This marked the second time this interstellar ice cube erupted in the last four months, with the last celestial event occurring in July, the Science Times reported.

The British Astronomical Association, which is closely monitoring 12P, caught wise to this explosion after noticing that it appeared dozens of times brighter due to the light reflected by its coma — the cloud of gas surrounding its center.

For the uninitiated, such eruptions occur when a large level of gas and ice amasses and combusts like a frozen Coke can, causing the comet’s frosty insides to burst out of large cracks that form in the nucleus crust.

In this instance, the arctic blast caused the coma to sprout "horns" like some sort of intergalactic Beelzebub, as seen in accompanying photos.

Scientists also compared the satanic shape to the Millennium Falcon spaceship from "Star Wars," Space Weather Archive reported.

Posted by Fred 2023-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Anybody watch Don't Look Up? That's exactly what I expect from world leaders in case this kind of thing happened.

Posted by Dron66046 2023-10-19 01:28|| 2023-10-19 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 What they call cryovolcanic eruptions are just retrorockets adjusting course…

Posted by Glenmore 2023-10-19 01:59|| 2023-10-19 01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Battleship

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-19 05:27|| 2023-10-19 05:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Deflection for something or time to stock up?

Time will tell.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-10-19 07:33|| 2023-10-19 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Already are Dron, starting with this article. Though, the movie gives a bit too much credit intelligence wise to its main characters.

For The Uninitiated.
What smug, New York Post known for its excellence in astronomy, even though it uses 'intergalactic' and can't get peoples' pronouns scientifically/biologically correct. "Oooh oooh it looks like that thing in the moving pictures box!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-10-19 08:09|| 2023-10-19 08:09|| Front Page Top

#6 We're making progress. Now we have belching comets.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-10-19 09:21|| 2023-10-19 09:21|| Front Page Top

#7 "Twelve million pounds of parts made by the lowest bidder!"

- Rockhound (Gary Buscemi) Armageddon

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-19 09:26|| 2023-10-19 09:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Think that was comet Swalwell.

Posted by Warthog 2023-10-19 09:31|| 2023-10-19 09:31|| Front Page Top

#9 SMOD 2024!!

Posted by DarthVader 2023-10-19 16:24|| 2023-10-19 16:24|| Front Page Top

#10 A big comet the size of a big comet.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2023-10-19 19:42|| 2023-10-19 19:42|| Front Page Top

#11 A comet the size of Stacey Abrams took out the dinosaurs.

Posted by SteveS 2023-10-19 20:26|| 2023-10-19 20:26|| Front Page Top

#12 "Caught wise"? Now that's some argot.

Posted by KBK 2023-10-19 22:03|| 2023-10-19 22:03|| Front Page Top

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