richard09
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| Subject: Why Halley's Comet Has Such a Wacky Orbit Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:17 am | |
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NoCoPilot
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| Subject: Re: Why Halley's Comet Has Such a Wacky Orbit Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:11 am | |
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- The comet’s exact fate is unknown, but it’ll be around for at least the next 10,000 years, and possibly as long as 10 million years. Eventually, it could evaporate like a melting ball of ice, or split in two. It might even be flung from the Solar System a few hundred thousand years from now.
Or... another possibility nobody wants to predict. |
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richard09
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| Subject: Re: Why Halley's Comet Has Such a Wacky Orbit Tue Jul 05, 2016 2:55 pm | |
| Given that they can't predict exactly from one century to the next, trying to predict a thousand centuries ahead seems a bit foolish. |
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