We will not see the legendary celestial body C / 2010 X1 (Elenin) on October 16, as astronomers promised
Elenin's comet, which has already become a legend, collapsed without bringing aliens on its tail. And many hoped so. Her untimely death was predicted by the discoverer of this celestial body - C / 2010 X1 (Elenin) - an astronomer, an employee of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics Leonid Yelenin. In an interview, he said:
- There is a possibility of the destruction of the comet. After all, she is small, she came close to the Sun, therefore the gravitational effect of the sun and solar radiation do their pernicious work. And already from August 20, the brightness of my comet began to fall, and not increase, as it should have been when approaching the Earth. The remnants of the comet's nucleus, which we previously saw as a bright clump, are no longer visible. He, apparently, fell apart into a cloud of small fragments. And by October 16, the comet may generally turn into dust.
The fact is that it was on October 16 that the comet should have approached a distance of 35 million kilometers, or 0.23 astronomical units. This is more than 90 times farther than from the Earth to the Moon. But close enough to see her even with the naked eye. And now such a spectacle will not happen.
According to Yelenin, today he did not find a comet in the images of the space solar observatory SOHO. So it crumbled. And in October it will be possible to see only fragments, and then through powerful telescopes.
Recall that this celestial object was supposed to become a vehicle for the movement of aliens across the Universe with a landing at the "Earth station" on September 10, 2011. In May 2011, Sergio Tuscany, Director of the Center for Astronomical Research in the province of Misiones (Argentina), made such a sensational statement, which raised a lot of noise on the Web. Arguments in favor of the soon visit of brothers in mind were based on him around the comet C / 2010 X1 (Elenin), because in its pictures he clearly saw: two cylinders were flying behind it.
“These cylinders are spaceships that are controlled by aliens,” Toscano explained to journalists from the Argentinean edition of Contexto. - They are hiding behind a comet so that we do not find them ahead of time. In addition, it serves as a shield for them from asteroids. Or the comet itself is part of a giant ship consisting of two compartments. On it, aliens travel through the vastness of space, visiting various planets.
But this was a misconception or a strange fantasy. As Leonid Yelenin told us, "any real astronomer understands how" cylinders "appear."
“These are just stars that were smeared during the exposure,” he rightly indignant, “as in the photographs headlights from moving cars are smeared into luminous stripes. The comet is moving, so if we follow it with a telescope, then the stars themselves are smeared into such strokes. If we followed the fixed stars, the comet would be "smeared". And Toscano decided that the "cylinders" fly. It's funny.
But now there is no comet, no funny fantasy of the Argentine troublemaker.