This image was taken on April 20, 2020.
It shows the fragments are about 6" (seconds) apart.
Given the distance of the comet from earth, 142,001,849 km, 6" is 4 130 km in length.
The fragments are most likely to come further apart and it will lead to maximum dispersion of matter around the perihelion of their orbit.
The orbit of these fragments will be different from the original calculation.
Magnitude is projected to be in the negatives.
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No clue what that means and its 4am so im not going to look it up but have a bump
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Was the whole Coronavirus scare just a manufactured crisis intended to get people to stockpile food and other supplies in the event that we get hit by bits of that comet and really do need to shelter in place for months?
Cool photo.
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Brainlet here, is that sarcastic or is it a nothing?
Cute cgi
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It's worse they told everyone not to stockpile and that food supply chains are going to keep going normally.
They shut down most terrestrial observatories too which makes zero sense since those are always in remote locations.
There is now 3 comets flying around and a pseudo pandemic going on with the worse lock-down ever witnesses in our civilizations ever.
super sarcastic
Probably, we have a number of comets coming next month (look up comet swan also) and an asteroid coming in about 3 days
I hereby meme it to crash into China
>They shut down most terrestrial observatories too which makes zero sense since those are always in remote locations.
I thought the same thing, odd to shut down almost all the world's observatory's when the they are in the middle of no where.
Too bad all of Musks starlink space junk will soon make it impossible to spot dangerous incoming objects.
Imagine that hitting earth. We weren't even prepared for an imaginary flu.
That's what I thought. Got a link to that info?
Never forget based Space Pepe.
A killing bolt will shine in the night but not kill.
Checked. Spaceforce broke it up before it could even start shining.
Thats the funny part there's barely any info.
We know it's green and green is often associated with cyanide gas.
forbes.com
There's plenty of information on other comets but C/2019 y4 is dismissed and declared dead by most of the "experts".
Here is the hubble image
sci-news.com
They say it's disintegrating but it's really just fragmented winch is two different thing.
What would disintegrating even mean in space? Gassing off until it's.. just a big gascloud?
Theoretically, depending on what it's made of, it'd be a result of micro/macroparticulate impacts, and breakdown from bombardment with various stellar & cosmic radiation.
t. completely talking out of my ass
When iirc Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in the 90s, Jupiter's gravity caused the comet to break into smaller chunks before it impacted
youtube.com
I'm no expert though.
>sci-news.com
What does this mean exactly?
>“Greater than expected astrometric residuals, with respect to the computed orbit of the comet, also suggest unusual activity in the nucleus and .”
>significant non-gravitational forces acting over the past several weeks
Are they talking about rotational forces from it spinning or what?
Comets are mostly made of ice/rock. The ice is not just water but methane, co2, co, cyanide etc.
As comets come closer to the sun at about the distance of Jupiter they begin to glow due to sunlight.
The heat caused by solar radiation cause the ice to sublimate into vapor and the rock is "loosen" and breaks apart.
Note that this comet survived the trip 4000 years ago and it's coming back now.
What is it’s actually alien space ships lol
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I was thinking about this the other day. Oumamu was some sort of probe. Now they sent a more direct means of contact, like on planet probes or satellites to be placed in system that "broke off" from the bigger ship.
I doubt it's likely. but it's fun to think about.
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What the fuck are you checking you giant newfaggot?
Cyanide?
Wormwood.
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Holy fuck is this real?
I assume they mean the nucleus is spewing more matter than usual and that the hue is bigger too.