NASA Shoots Down Comet Elenin Doomsday Predictions

coondoggie writes "The comet Elenin, which will pass by Earth October 16, has generated such an inordinate amount of doomsday reports from a number of different sources that NASA today issued a release meant to address a variety of them. To address the myriad concerns, NASA said its scientists compiled a list of the most popular questions it has received about Elenin."

The original article

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/comet_elenin.html

networkworld.com seems overloaded, and I probably don't want to see their ads anyway

FAQ from NASA

[bziman]

The actual FAQ from NASA [nasa.gov] was posted two weeks ago. Nice of someone to link to it.

Re:That's so cool

[rubycodez]

Not an issue with asteroids, too many astronomers independent of the U.S. government would see such a thing. It's the same with the tin foil hatters claiming huge amounts of radiation are blowing across the USA from the west, too many people could detect such a thing (including me)