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NASA Shoots Down Comet Elenin Doomsday Predictions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the phew-i-was-worried dept.

coondoggie writes "The comet Elenin, which will pass by Earth October 16, has generated such an inordinate amount of doomsday reports from a number of different sources that NASA today issued a release meant to address a variety of them. To address the myriad concerns, NASA said its scientists compiled a list of the most popular questions it has received about Elenin."

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  1. The original article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/comet_elenin.html

    networkworld.com seems overloaded, and I probably don't want to see their ads anyway

  2. FAQ from NASA by bziman · · Score: 4, Informative

    The actual FAQ from NASA was posted two weeks ago. Nice of someone to link to it.

  3. Re:That's so cool by rubycodez · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not an issue with asteroids, too many astronomers independent of the U.S. government would see such a thing. It's the same with the tin foil hatters claiming huge amounts of radiation are blowing across the USA from the west, too many people could detect such a thing (including me)