comet, early solar system, outer space

4 Billion-Year-Old Comet From Early Solar System Headed Our way

An enormous comet — approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island — is heading our way at 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system. Fortunately, it will never get closer than 1 billion miles from the Sun, which is slightly farther from Earth than Saturn; that will be in 2031. ...

Troy Oakes

Comet C/2014 UN271.