“Comet Elenin will not only be far away, it is also on the small side for comets. … So you’ve got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers. It will have an immeasurably minuscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean’s tides than comet Elenin ever will.”
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