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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. P |
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