Comet Elenin - Newly Discovered Will Pass By Earth Oct. 2011 within possibly .15 au - Video

It seems a new comet has just been discovered in Dec. 2010.

The name of the comet is Elenin.  It is named after the Russian Astronomer - Leonid Elenin who found it. 

The information is still being discovered on it.  NASA nor anyone else is absolutely sure of it's path.  They say it can change, as they do not know how stable the comet is at this time.

They have released a projected path of the Comet.  That projected path will bring it possibly .15 au close to Earth in Oct. 2011.  Here is the picture of what that closeness means.  Look at Oct. 30th.

We will be passing through the tail of the comet in November.  The amount of ice/debris/ etc in the tail is not yet known.

The amount of light it is emitting

A picture of it from Dec. 10th 2010

They say the extra light in the picture is from the movement of the comet over 4 hours time.

I did a very short video about it today.




Links to information you may find useful in knowing more about the comet


http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin&orb=1

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/221672-Comet-Elenin-is-Coming

http://spaceobs.org/en/tag/comet-elenin/

I will say, I will be watching this comet as I believe the Earth will be impacted by it.  In what way, no one knows right now.  Lets also hope, if it goes off track than the projected path it is on right now it goes in the direction away from the Earth.