Comet Elenin approaching Earth, get your bunkers ready!

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  1. Pravus Prime, Jul 12, 2011
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  2. bcm77, Jul 12, 2011
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    Valentine's Day?.........Bummer :lol 
     
  3. bumblebot98, Jul 12, 2011
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    I hope they get pictures.
     
  4. firehawc_69, Jul 12, 2011
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  5. Tripredacus, Jul 12, 2011
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    Elenin... Email.. Mail... Lenin???
     
  6. Aernaroth, Jul 12, 2011
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    It's just the dude who discovered the comet's name. I don't know why people are reading into the name so much.
     
  7. Zherbus, Jul 12, 2011
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    Aernaroth

    Aer... air naro... naw, row! th... the?

    What kind of boat?

    Air? Nah, Row. The end?
     
  8. koh4711, Jul 13, 2011
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    We're cool as long as we don't pass through the tail. That might create zombies.

    (200 80's Points if you get that reference.)
     
  9. Deceptijohn, Jul 13, 2011
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  10. John_Force, Jul 13, 2011
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    Chill. The comets gonna come within 21.6 million kilometers of us on October 16, 2011. We don't need no blasted battle cruisers.
     
  11. Overhaulimus, Jul 13, 2011
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    And that's why you just can't trust aliens. Occasionally you meet a nice one, Starman, E.T., but usually they just turn out to some kind of big lizard!

    That's all the time we've got this week, next week, gimme Ira, hairless pets.....weird.
     
  12. Keith Prime, Jul 14, 2011
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    Not 21.6 Million km; 21.7 Million miles (34.9 million km).

     
  13. Aernaroth, Jul 14, 2011
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    Does NASA have any comet probes planned for Elenin like Stardust or Deep Impact? If its supposed to get relatively close (though seriously, is 20% of an astronomical unit "close" at all?), one would think it would be a good oppotunity to get samples or hitch a ride to study kinetics during the perihelion.
     
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