Atlas Comet FIVE times the size of Jupiter in April/May - could be brighter than Venus

Looking for specific viewing times and locations.

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So we gonna get hit with a fuckin meteor now?

Edit: a comet, I mean. Jinx @lostinasia

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Based on 2020 so far, this is totally going to hit us, right?

Edit. Ninja’d!

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It will probably kill the locusts at least.

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“closest to Earth on May 23, 2020”

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I’m sure the televangelists will hop on this “sign of the end times” really quickly.

Forbes already jumping on coronavirus connection.

“Just maybe it will be the most amazing thing you will ever see”

“In the meantime when it gets dark it will be visible halfway up in the north-northwest sky and potentially visible with the naked eye from April.”

I’m of the generation that was disappointed by Halley’s Comet in 1986. Maybe this one will be a better show!

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“Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.”

Maybe this thing is going to shower the Earth with a bunch of tiny meteors as it passes by.

“Pass by”? This is 2020. That thing is going to pass through us like a hot knife through butter.

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You jinxed it !

Letdown.

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The Second Coming, he is here, we will be sav… oh shit.

Meltdown.

Actually

Gaseous phase

Sorry

Ionised plasmafication

… and Comet Swan has so far disappointed (by arriving in the peak of the rainy season and not being visible due to persistent low cloud or haze).

Blergh!

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