NASA confirmed that the largest comet ever seendiscovered thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, will pass close to Earth during the next decadeapproximately in 2031.
From the US space agency they assured that it is a celestial object, which “It has a nucleus 50 times larger than that of comets known so far”as quoted on the website of The Andes.
According to expert calculations, the estimated diameter of the comet, called ‘C/2014 UN271′, it’s almost 130 kilometersso NASA highlighted: “The space laboratory detected the ice core of the largest comet ever observed by humans.”
Astronomers argued that the object it is “bigger than the US state of Rhode Island”and that, with these dimensions, “the celestial colossus will pass close to our planet at the beginning of the next decade.”
An unprecedented comet
In addition to being much larger than the average comet seen so far, this specimen weighs regarding 500 billion tonsmore than any other similar celestial body that has passed close to our Solar System.
NASA scientists, with information from Hubble, determined that the comet is precipitating from one end of our System, with a speed of approximately more than 35 thousand 400 kilometers per hour.
About ‘C/2014 UN271′reported that its core appears to be made entirely of icesomething that was determined from a digital model made by the Macau University of Science and Technology.
Experts believe that the giant comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a space on the edge of our Solar System, very far from Earth. Its origin leads specialists to assess that the comet might be regarding 1 million years old falling towards the Sun.
“Because the mass of our main body is so great, it attracts objects like this all the time. However, we have never had a record of such a gigantic”, They indicated from NASA, adding that so far there is no real risk of impact once morest Earth.
