Yeah its a pain in the ass trying to look up stats for Elenin because there are so many misinformed punks out there with no knowledge on the subject posting the wrong information.

I think I heard somewhere that it was 4km wide on the largest part, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, I just saw that it's probably about 4km as well here: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=15372 so I figure that's a decent source.

The Universe Sandbox thing costs $10 to buy, so I'm not going to get it. It seems like the odds are fairly good that it would not be sophisticated enough to allow for the comet to have an initial velocity and direction that accurately describes the real comet, and even if it did the game itself would not have the levels of sophistication required to get any idea what effects it would have on the inner core of the Earth which is responsible for the magnetic field.

Just found out something cool, "Elenin" Translates as "Hammer of God" in Hebrew

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it always makes me laugh when i here people talk about planets aligning , and gravitational effects , etc
and the whole " it will affect the liquid core of the earth " shit is just a joke ....

Comet Elenin is green and looks quite awesome.



I wonder if we'll be able to see it with the naked eye.

NASA, on a mission to propel certain beguiling conspiracy theories into deep space once and for all, has decided to relay some interesting facts about the comet called Elenin, the first of which being it’s not going to kill us. Why is not going to smash into the ocean sending behemoth tsunamis in every direction while filling the skies with a thick barricade of volcanic ash? Well, according to the experts, it’s because Elenin is really a little itty bitty baby comet in relative terms, only about 5 km wide at most and will not even be coming close to a direct hit. In fact, the closest it will come to this wonderful ball of frenetic paranoia is 90 times the Earth-moon distance, which when you do the math, comes to 22 million miles. In case you are still not convinced, NASA has even gone ahead and posted a Q&A entitled, “Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Comet Elenin.”
So basically, no, Comet Elenin will not block the sun for three days. And, no, comet Elenin is not a brown dwarf and no it will not be sucking Comet Honda into a black hole. And no, Comet Elenin has not been the subject of intense NASA scrutiny indicative of a looming Armageddon and a plot to keep the truth from the people. In fact, what they call Elenin over at NASA is literally, “wimpy.” Yes, wimpy.



I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's not too much of an exageration to say that, You, walking across the room to Crack open a diet Dr Pepper will cause more Gravitaional pull on the earths core than Elenin will as it passes by

This post was edited by FullArcFG on Aug 17 2011 04:22pm

Unless the comet weighs over 31.241 million times more than him, you are correct.