Comet of the Century?

[Playinghardball]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5_1HdOCOJ_Q

[Warpy]

1. Halley's Comet was a disappointment in 1986

I was in Boston and under a brown cloud of pollution and never got to see it. Hale=Bopp is the only one I've seen go by, and that's because I moved to NM, with thin, dry air and little blocking the view.

I hope this one pans out. Of course, it will likely cause more religious craziness to pop up, but o bla di.

[Glassunion]

2. So... I should rerun my wizard robe?

[Moostache]

3. Hale-Bopp was pretty amazing, especially the parts that slammed Jupiter...

Of course the freaks from Heaven's Gate had to come along and district the rubberneckers and mouth breathing knuckle draggers...

[defacto7]

4. This really could be a big deal...

There are many things that make it more likely to be a major event, being new, having a very white surface, it's likely position, you can read up. I have heard some scientists calling this likely to be the biggest comet event in the lifetime... of a civilization. That's, say 2000 years. It depends mostly on what happens while it swings around the sun. I doubt it will be a dud by any measurement. At the least it will be amazing.