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(111,359 posts)I was in Boston and under a brown cloud of pollution and never got to see it. Hale=Bopp is the only one I've seen go by, and that's because I moved to NM, with thin, dry air and little blocking the view.
I hope this one pans out. Of course, it will likely cause more religious craziness to pop up, but o bla di.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)Of course the freaks from Heaven's Gate had to come along and district the rubberneckers and mouth breathing knuckle draggers...
defacto7
(13,485 posts)There are many things that make it more likely to be a major event, being new, having a very white surface, it's likely position, you can read up. I have heard some scientists calling this likely to be the biggest comet event in the lifetime... of a civilization. That's, say 2000 years. It depends mostly on what happens while it swings around the sun. I doubt it will be a dud by any measurement. At the least it will be amazing.