By the Earth sweeps unknown comet. Meeting in 5 years!!!

Astronomer Peter Dzheniskens discovered a comet that may collide with Earth in 2016. 

The story of this discovery began on February 4, while observing the meteor shower low-level television camera station CAMS in California. 

Currently, the International Astronomical Union has registered 64 meteor stream, more than 300 subject to confirmation. Streams of dust moving poSolnechnoy system is constant, but outside the Earth's orbit, they remain invisible. Only when our planet is faced with such a flow, we find it. 

CAMS station is designed to find the meteor shower, and its first discovery was in the direction of flow from the star this dragon. Meteorites that stream moving at a very elongated orbit and the trajectory is typical of long-period comets such as Hale-Bopp. But unlike many other comets, the trajectory of a dust plume indicates that so far unknown to us cometary body passes near the Earth's orbit. 

Because of the orbital parameters of potentially dangerous comets must be judged only on its dust trail, it is difficult to determine exactly when she last took place in the immediate vicinity of the Earth's orbit, a few hundred years ago or many thousands. The fact is that during the approach to the planet comet has released a cloud of dust, which severely stretched in the space turned into a long thread. This "river" of dust and stones and caused a 2-hour meteor rain, discovered by astronomers. 

Peter Dzheniskens confident that he will be able to accurately calculate the next time you approach the comet with the Earth, maybe it will happen in 2016 or 2023, after which the comet approaches the Earth before 2076. But while astronomers can not say for sure: at the moment it is removed comet planet or vice versa is moving closer to her. To answer this question, additional observations, fortunately this time there: scientists calm, considering the risk of collision of the comet with the Earth small.

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