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Old 02-November-2007, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by sts60 View Post
If you know its orbital elements already - which you must know if you can predict its passage - than it is already impossible to hide its approach. Thousands of amateur astronomers across the world would already be able to image it. Unless it is somewhat further out than Pluto - in which case, based on a few quick-and-dirty calculations, it's likely that it wouldn't even be gravitationally bound to the Sun anyway.
Look at how many people jumped on the eruption of comet Holmes for proof of this.

@ Dave J - I suspect the reason for "some url" and "some website thing" is that antoniseb removed them as part of our rules enforcement and defense against spammers.
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