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By Emma Colton
October 28, 2023
A “Devil Comet,” twice the size of Mount Everest, is shooting toward Earth but likely does not pose any threat to humanity, according to an astronomer.
“It might be bright enough that you can see with your naked eye or with binoculars, but that’s not because it’s going to be super close,” Teddy Kareta, a postdoctoral researcher at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, told Insider. “It’s because it’s just generally very bright.”
Better known in the scientific community as 12P/Pons-Brooks, the so-called “Devil Comet” was first discovered in 1812 before it was spotted again in 1883, SkyLive reported. It is known as a periodic comet with an orbital period of roughly 71 years.