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🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:28.7 | welcome to the cocky ride home for wednesday, June 23rd, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. |
0:41.7 | A very big and very strange comet-ish object has entered our solar system. Some tips to help your |
0:50.9 | body recover from a year of virtual working, learning, and socializing, |
0:55.7 | and the two badass 12-year-old girls going to the Tokyo Olympics for skateboarding. |
1:02.4 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
1:08.5 | Possibly the biggest comet ever recorded is hurtling toward the sun. |
1:13.6 | But don't worry, it won't hit it. It won't even get closer to the sun than Saturn is. |
1:18.6 | And it won't get there until 2031. And we probably won't notice anything here on Earth or even be able to see anything without a telescope. |
1:26.6 | Except maybe a cool |
1:28.3 | fireworks show as it breaks up. So now that I've sufficiently thrown cold water on any |
1:33.8 | possible alarmist headlines here, let's talk about what still makes this object really |
1:39.1 | cool and notable. Quoting Gizmodo, the mystery object is called 2014 UN271, and it's currently 22 |
1:47.8 | astronomical units, or AU, from the sun, in which one AU is the average distance of Earth |
1:53.8 | to the sun, which means that it has already passed the orbit of Neptune. The International |
1:59.1 | Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center announced the |
2:02.3 | detection on June 19th. This object will travel another 11.1 AU before reaching its perihelion point, |
2:09.6 | the closest approach to the sun in 2031, after which 2014 UN 271 will begin its long journey back to the Ork Cloud. |
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