Comet Bernardinelli will fly by the Earth at a relatively small distance by cosmic standards


Comet Bernstein was discovered not so long ago in 2014

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to see the passage of this celestial body without the “armed eye”, since the minimum distance at which the comet will fly from the earth will be one billion km. However, by the standards of space, this is “scanty”, so astrophysicists and many space lovers will closely monitor this space object.

According to scientists, comet Bernardinelli — Bernstein was discovered quite recently in 2014 and now it is located at a distance of about three billion km from our planet. While it is not in the Solar System, it will arrive there only by 2031.

The celestial body will follow, among other things, not far from the orbit of Saturn, after which it will follow the Oort cloud for more than two million years. Experts note that comet C/2014 UN271 has never been in the Solar System and does not pose any threat to the Earth.


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