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This comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary. – Imran Sultan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The juxtaposition of our friendly visitor and galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away really conveys how enormous our universe is, this comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary. – Imran Sultan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet. – Bill Cooke	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Based on the given absolute magnitude, and given how exceptionally red it looked in 2014 precovery images from CFHT (the g - r color was 0.9, and r - i was 0.5!) I would estimate at an albedo of 0.01-0.08 a diameter of 130-370 kilometers (nominally 160) which puts it on a similar scale, if not larger than, Sarabat's huge comet C/1729 P1, and almost undoubtedly the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered- almost in dwarf planet territory! i have little doubt in my mind that as this gets closer to the sun, it will begin displaying the coma and tail typical of every other object yet seen in its orbit. – Sam Deen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I thought it would make an interesting picture because theres some great symbolism, manstone Rock looks like a persons face. You can make out the face easily and it is looking at the comet. The idea of the face looking at the comet appealed to me. – Fusek Peters	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I managed to photograph the comet approaching on Sunday evening through a small telescope, the comet has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1844, leading to speculation on whether C/2019 Y4 is a fragment of the same parent body. – Jamie Cooper in Lincolnshire	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think, in general, it is hard to associate a particular comet with a particular star, we must also consider the contribution of the galactic background potential, which is essentially the influence of all the other much more distant, but also much more numerous, stars in the galaxy. – Coryn Bailer-Jones	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Every time a new comet is discovered, everybody starts to try and get data so that you can get the orbit. – Karen Meech	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
On our team we've been scrambling here at the University of Hawaii to get observations to make position measurements, every time a new comet is discovered, everybody starts to try and get data so that you can get the orbit. – Karen Meech	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We thought comet and asteroids traveling between stellar systems would be rare because of the distances involved, but now we have detected an example, in Oumuamua. The fact that we found an example so soon after developing telescopes argues that they must be rather more common than we thought. – Professor Lattanzio	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A comet impact on its own may have contributed carbon to the atmosphere. – Morgan Schaller	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The first time we saw it I think we all went a little bit into denial because it was not expected to be found in a comet, molecular oxygen is very reactive. There was a lot of hydrogen around when the solar system was formed. Everybody and all models showed that molecular oxygen would react with the hydrogen and would no longer be present as molecular oxygen. – Kathrin Altwegg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It is the most surprising discovery we have made so far in 67P because oxygen was not among the molecules suspected in a cometary comas, the first time we saw it I think we all went a little bit into denial because it was not expected to be found in a comet. – Kathrin Altwegg	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The fact that it’s in the whole body led us to the idea that it was primordial so the O2 must have been present at the formation of the comet. – Andr Bieler	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The existence of such complex molecules in a comet, a relic of Solar System, imply that chemical processes at work during that time could have played a key role in fostering the formation of prebiotic material. – The European Space Agency	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This time, as we're riding along next to the comet, the most logical way to end the mission is to set Rosetta down on the surface, but there is still a lot to do to confirm that this end-of-mission scenario is possible. We'll first have to see what the status of the spacecraft is after perihelion and how well it is performing close to the comet, and later we will have to try and determine where on the surface we can have a touchdown. – Patrick Martin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The comet is a very, very active object at the moment, it's a bit as if you were to imagine taking your car through a snowstorm, we reckon it should be safe but as soon as we see activity coming back we may have to retreat further. – Elsa Montagnon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is not a 'dead' body, it's a living, breathing dragon of a comet. – Mark McCaughrean	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is also possible that a comet will hit planet Earth, (But) I don't believe that any sensible European bureaucrat or politician will go down that road. – Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The data acquired during Rosetta's close flyby will provide incredible new details of the comet's surface and near-coma environment, complementing that collected earlier in the mission while on bound orbits. – European Space Agency officials	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Here's a great example of what happens when a meteor or comet hits a marine environment, and it doesn't really do a whole lot. – Leif Tapanila	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. – Philip Sidney	added by anonymous 9 years ago
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train. – Desiderius Erasmus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern. – James Thurber	added by anonymous 10 years ago

This comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary.

– Imran Sultan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The juxtaposition of our friendly visitor and galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away really conveys how enormous our universe is, this comet started its journey in the most distant parts of our Solar System and may even leave the Solar System entirely after this visit, so capturing this historic event has been extraordinary.

– Imran Sultan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.

– Bill Cooke

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Based on the given absolute magnitude, and given how exceptionally red it looked in 2014 precovery images from CFHT (the g - r color was 0.9, and r - i was 0.5!) I would estimate at an albedo of 0.01-0.08 a diameter of 130-370 kilometers (nominally 160) which puts it on a similar scale, if not larger than, Sarabat's huge comet C/1729 P1, and almost undoubtedly the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered- almost in dwarf planet territory! i have little doubt in my mind that as this gets closer to the sun, it will begin displaying the coma and tail typical of every other object yet seen in its orbit.

– Sam Deen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I thought it would make an interesting picture because theres some great symbolism, manstone Rock looks like a persons face. You can make out the face easily and it is looking at the comet. The idea of the face looking at the comet appealed to me.

– Fusek Peters

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I managed to photograph the comet approaching on Sunday evening through a small telescope, the comet has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1844, leading to speculation on whether C/2019 Y4 is a fragment of the same parent body.

– Jamie Cooper in Lincolnshire

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think, in general, it is hard to associate a particular comet with a particular star, we must also consider the contribution of the galactic background potential, which is essentially the influence of all the other much more distant, but also much more numerous, stars in the galaxy.

– Coryn Bailer-Jones

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Every time a new comet is discovered, everybody starts to try and get data so that you can get the orbit.

– Karen Meech

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

On our team we've been scrambling here at the University of Hawaii to get observations to make position measurements, every time a new comet is discovered, everybody starts to try and get data so that you can get the orbit.

– Karen Meech

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We thought comet and asteroids traveling between stellar systems would be rare because of the distances involved, but now we have detected an example, in Oumuamua. The fact that we found an example so soon after developing telescopes argues that they must be rather more common than we thought.

– Professor Lattanzio

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

A comet impact on its own may have contributed carbon to the atmosphere.

– Morgan Schaller

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The first time we saw it I think we all went a little bit into denial because it was not expected to be found in a comet, molecular oxygen is very reactive. There was a lot of hydrogen around when the solar system was formed. Everybody and all models showed that molecular oxygen would react with the hydrogen and would no longer be present as molecular oxygen.

– Kathrin Altwegg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It is the most surprising discovery we have made so far in 67P because oxygen was not among the molecules suspected in a cometary comas, the first time we saw it I think we all went a little bit into denial because it was not expected to be found in a comet.

– Kathrin Altwegg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The fact that it’s in the whole body led us to the idea that it was primordial so the O2 must have been present at the formation of the comet.

– Andr Bieler

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The existence of such complex molecules in a comet, a relic of Solar System, imply that chemical processes at work during that time could have played a key role in fostering the formation of prebiotic material.

– The European Space Agency

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This time, as we're riding along next to the comet, the most logical way to end the mission is to set Rosetta down on the surface, but there is still a lot to do to confirm that this end-of-mission scenario is possible. We'll first have to see what the status of the spacecraft is after perihelion and how well it is performing close to the comet, and later we will have to try and determine where on the surface we can have a touchdown.

– Patrick Martin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The comet is a very, very active object at the moment, it's a bit as if you were to imagine taking your car through a snowstorm, we reckon it should be safe but as soon as we see activity coming back we may have to retreat further.

– Elsa Montagnon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is not a 'dead' body, it's a living, breathing dragon of a comet.

– Mark McCaughrean

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is also possible that a comet will hit planet Earth, (But) I don't believe that any sensible European bureaucrat or politician will go down that road.

– Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The data acquired during Rosetta's close flyby will provide incredible new details of the comet's surface and near-coma environment, complementing that collected earlier in the mission while on bound orbits.

– European Space Agency officials

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Here's a great example of what happens when a meteor or comet hits a marine environment, and it doesn't really do a whole lot.

– Leif Tapanila

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

– Philip Sidney

added by anonymous
9 years ago

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

– Desiderius Erasmus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.

– James Thurber

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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