{"id":128495,"date":"2021-10-03T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/one-of-the-largest-comets-ever-seen-is-headed-our-way"},"modified":"2021-10-03T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:24:02","slug":"one-of-the-largest-comets-ever-seen-is-headed-our-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/one-of-the-largest-comets-ever-seen-is-headed-our-way","title":{"rendered":"One of The Largest Comets Ever Seen is Headed Our Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-of-the-largest-comets-ever-seen-is-headed-our-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A comet so massive that it was initially misidentified as a dwarf planet is on its way in from the outer Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no need to be concerned; C\/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as the comet is known, will pass just outside Saturn\u2019s orbit. However, its large size and close proximity will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study a pristine object from the Oort Cloud and learn more about the formation of the Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the privilege of having discovered perhaps the largest comet ever seen \u2013 or at least larger than any well-studied one \u2013 and caught it early enough for people to watch it evolve as it approaches and warms up,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/news\/noirlab2119\/\">co-discoverer and astronomer Gary Bernstein from the University of Pennsylvania said earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comet so massive that it was initially misidentified as a dwarf planet is on its way in from the outer Solar System. There\u2019s no need to be concerned; C\/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as the comet is known, will pass just outside Saturn\u2019s orbit. However, its large size and close proximity will provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}