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Spitzer spots a comet inside our solar system with a dust cloud large dust cloud.

Official statement from NASA as a result of their new supercooled
orbiting telescope..

They have spotted..."A COMET STREAKING THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM SOME
880,000 MILLION
KILOMETRES FROM THE SUN. IT IS SURROUNDED BY A CLOUD ABOUT 20 TIMES
BIGGER THAN JUPITER, BUT THE SPITZER SEES TO THE COMETS GLOWING CORE."

A dust cloud 20 times larger than JUPITER!? They expect us to believe
a simple comet (which averages 10km in width) is going to drag with it a
dustcloud that is over 500,000,000 km in size?

To put this in perspective, if the comet was the size of a grain of
sand, the dust could would be HALF THE SIZE OF MANHATTAN!

880,000,000,000 km is a bit less then the distance from the sun to jupiter

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8210502%255E1702,00.html

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