Huge comet crash closely avoided in 1883

A huge comet closely missed hitting the Earth when it passed within 5,000 miles of us in 1883.

Astronomers have been examining a photograph of the comet taken in 1883 by Mexican astronomer Jose Banilla. At the time it was hailed as the first photograph of a UFO. The object would have been 8 times the mass of Haley's comet & would have wrought untold devastation if it had hit us, may be destroy mankind!

But now scientists from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico believe it could have been a massive comet that came close to hitting the Earth with a similar mass to the object that killed the dinosaurs.

Mexican scientists believe this photograph taken in 1883 shows a comet that came shut to hitting the earth.

Using the time that it took the object to cross the sun combined with the location of Bonilla's observatory, the report calculated that the object would be at most 8,000km away, & possibly much less.
'The only bodies in the Solar System which are enclosed by a bright murkiness are the comets, so it is accurate to suppose that the objects seen by Bonilla were small comets, believed the scientists.

As well as being shockingly close to earth, the scientists think that the comet could have had the same group as the object that wiped out the dinosaurs eight times the mass of Halley's comet.
The report's claims have been questioned, though as a comet breaking up so shut to earth should have resulted in a meteor shower, & no astronomers detected one.

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