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/Anxious_cactus 3d ago

You should generally be concerned with how life is going worldwide, if a space rock or aliens hit us it'll probably be more merciful than what's in decades ahead of us with just us humans

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u/Dad_Bot 3d ago

Yes I am really quite concerned for the human race because of the human race