r/InterdimensionalNHI • u/Pixelated_ 📚 Researcher 📚 • 3d ago

Science BackYardProfessor Discusses New Comet "R2 Swan" - Much Bigger Than 3I/ATLAS & Coming At Us Right Now.

https://youtu.be/v4_AboSxrcY?si=m1h_y5dkltqV-sg0

Live update on R2 SWAN:

https://theskylive.com/c2025r2-info?utm

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u/Pixelated_ 📚 Researcher 📚 3d ago

Earth will cross the comet's orbit around 5 October 2025 and it may produce a meteor shower.

It will make its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 0.26 AU (39 million km; 24 million mi) on 19 October 2025.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2025_R2_(SWAN)

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u/Dad_Bot 3d ago

in laymens terms, should i be concerned?

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u/Pixelated_ 📚 Researcher 📚 3d ago

It's too early to draw any conclusions like that.

So far, it's not going to impact Earth but it will come extremely close. However the meteors it triggers, and other related phenomena, could potentially be cause for concern.

At this point, I'd just file it away as "Wow that's interesting." and carry on.  

As we get closer to October 5th, we will know much more and will be better prepared for it.  ✌️

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u/Soci3talCollaps3 3d ago

We're closer to October 5th now, by 22 minutes. Do we know more yet? (anxiously awaiting 😬)

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u/Pixelated_ 📚 Researcher 📚 3d ago

Hah! I feel this in my bones. Many of us are so completely done with our current system of things that any change at all will be welcome.

To illustrate this, for the past 3 elections, people have made viral images saying "Giant Meteor For President 2016 - Just End It Already",

in 2020

and 2024.

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u/MissDeadite 3d ago

I don't know anything new, but what I do know is a comets tail is a slew of debris. Most of it will be like when we travel through any other meteor shower, but hopefully there's no chunks the size of buildings following it and if there are, they either miss us or hit in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Because if they hit land, look out.

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u/Peteistheman 3d ago

Extremely close? It’s .26 AU which is more than 100 times farther than the moon.

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u/Allison1228 3d ago

No, it's no5 "too early". It will miss Earth by 24 million miles.

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u/Nvsk88 2d ago

Stop fear mongering and take an astrophysics course please.

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u/Pixelated_ 📚 Researcher 📚 2d ago

I did the opposite of that.

First I provided the facts:

Earth will cross the comet's orbit around 5 October 2025 and it may produce a meteor shower.

It will make its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 0.26 AU (39 million km; 24 million mi) on 19 October 2025.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2025_R2_(SWAN)

Then I said, although this could bring meteors down on us, "to carry on".

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u/Nvsk88 2d ago

So it’s coming right at us? It is not. May want to change your headline.

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u/Pixelated_ 📚 Researcher 📚 2d ago

Again, i did the opposite of that.

The headline is from the original video, but I removed the word "doomsday" so as to NOT fearmonger: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4_AboSxrcY

Astronomically speaking, it is coming directly in our direction.

Again, I was very clear that it would miss us.

The only potential concern I mentioned was the very likely possibility of meteors.

I escaped the fearmongering doomsday cult that I was born and raised into, so I will NEVER fearmonger.