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incoming: C/2014 UN271(Bernardinelli-Bernstein)
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post Sep 22 2021, 02:45 AM
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The only reason I put this here is that we might have time to send a flyby to this monster?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09852.pdf

What a unique opportunity to examine a 'pristine' and enormous Oort cloud comet!

There's not much time though, 2031 is really close, but even if there's no mission, by then there will be
a whole new generation of ground and space based assets to see the show. I imagine
that if its as big as suggested one of the ELTs with advanced AO might even be able to
image the disk.

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