Officials said on Tuesday that the guilty discovered recently - radiating luster although it is far from the earth, such as after Jupiter - his way toward the sun, which is supposed to reach the nearest point them in November.
If you wrote to him to survive in this "confrontation", the culprit may be seen even in broad daylight in the sky of the earth at the end of the year.
Said William Cook chief scientist office environment meteorites of the Department of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the status of the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama, that the comet Eason discovered by astronomers from amateur in September 2012 on the verge of reaching to the outer edge of the asteroid belt, which lies about 451 million miles from Earth.
The observations show the telescope NASA's Swift that comet dust cast of its nucleus at a rate of more than 50 802 kg per minute result Sgunth the heat of the sun.
This level of activity is unusual comet is still so far away from the sun. This may lead to separation.
Preliminary measurements conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope, which picked up a picture of the comet released on Tuesday that the body Eason no more than 6.4 kilometers in diameter.
The comet's nucleus will continue to shrink the closer from the sun with high temperatures. The comet crumbles component of rocks and ice before fully up to a distance of 1.1 million kilometers from the sun's surface on 28 November.
Cook said the guilty in the seventies of the last century passed after the sun more than ten times that distance and partially fragmented.
He added, "I doubt that this thing will survive. Guess we will not know for sure until we see comes from behind the sun."
The comet carries the name of the international network of scientific optical (Eason), a telescope discovered
