"Billion Ton comet may have missed earth in 1883"--truncated title

[Gimpy]

My Hubby sent this to me this morning. I thought it was good enough for the Sott page.
Its about astronomers 'just discovering' that the earth was just missed by a clustered falling apart comet. Damage control maybe?

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27264/

 

[1984]

Very interesting. A similar article was published last week on SOTT: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/236331-Was-the-First-Photographed-UFO-a-Comet-