Technologue.id, Jakarta – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has determined the size of the largest comet core ever reported by astronomers. Comet C/2014 UN271 was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein in this archive image from the Dark Energy Survey at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
This comet was first observed in November 2010. So, what is the description of the comet which is said to have the largest nucleus?
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Comet C/2014 UN271 has an estimated diameter of about 80 miles. This means that the comet is larger than the state of Rhode Island.
NASA reports that the comet’s nucleus is estimated to be 50 times larger than any comet ever discovered. Not only a very large nucleus or nucleus, the comet also has a mass of up to 500 trillion tons.
This means that the comet seen has a mass one hundred thousand times greater than the mass of ordinary comets found closer to the Sun.
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Although this comet is quite “terrible”, but NASA is telling the public to calm down and not worry.
“Despite approaching about 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system, the comet will never be closer than 1 billion miles away from the Sun. And it won’t be until 2031,” NASA said.
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