Dwarf planet 'becoming a comet'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6268799.stm
2003 EL61 is a large, dense, rugby-ball-shaped hunk of rock with a fast rotation rate.
Professor Mike Brown has calculated that the object could be due a close encounter with the planet Neptune.
If so, Neptune's gravity could catapult it into the inner Solar System as a short-period comet.
"If you came back in two million years, EL61 could well be a comet," said Professor Brown, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.
"When it becomes a comet, it will be the brightest we will ever see.
"Frankly I do not think that some sinister invisible energy-wraith is soon to dump on us and crush us like grapes. Such recent grim warning could be the design of Psyops Social Engineering Corp. However since Comet McNaught observations I've had a hunch that stuff in space is at least unusual, perhaps as described by Dmitriev and others. McNaught is strange, Comet 2P/Encke is coming in strange, and we hear tales of a dwarf planet 'becoming a comet'. That is strange too. Therefore I do suggest a cautious watch.-- Kent"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6268799.stm
2003 EL61 is a large, dense, rugby-ball-shaped hunk of rock with a fast rotation rate.
Professor Mike Brown has calculated that the object could be due a close encounter with the planet Neptune.
If so, Neptune's gravity could catapult it into the inner Solar System as a short-period comet.
"If you came back in two million years, EL61 could well be a comet," said Professor Brown, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.
"When it becomes a comet, it will be the brightest we will ever see.
"Frankly I do not think that some sinister invisible energy-wraith is soon to dump on us and crush us like grapes. Such recent grim warning could be the design of Psyops Social Engineering Corp. However since Comet McNaught observations I've had a hunch that stuff in space is at least unusual, perhaps as described by Dmitriev and others. McNaught is strange, Comet 2P/Encke is coming in strange, and we hear tales of a dwarf planet 'becoming a comet'. That is strange too. Therefore I do suggest a cautious watch.-- Kent"