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Technically you can find meteor showers and stuff like that. But I agree in this case there does not seem to be any way to know what it was doing before this encounter. So then we agree that it seems most likely : Leonard was kicked out of the Oort cloud by some passing celestial body that set...

I think we are pretty much in agreement. I havent studied everything you wrote there. Thanks again for your help. I know almost nothing of how they work.

well Im more confused now. Are we assuming that this comet had visited the earth and sun in a prior time? Some 70 or 80k years ago. You said ", Leonard, thinks the aphelion point from its prior elliptical orbit (implied) was about 3700 AU." So that says to me that we are both assuming there...

Hello Helio: Thank you for all the information. I really do not know much about comets so I appreciate it. Can you explain a little more how the comet speeds up during its trip? I introduced two events because the news reports said Leonard had visited us 70k years before. Which I guess means...

OK I think we have to rethink whether this comet ever visited us in the past. I read some of the article which was very informative. There are a number of possible origins for Leonard's comet: 1 interstellar space, quite possible 2 disrupted from the Oort Cloud by a passing body e.g. a...

Per the interview with the comet's discoverer: Leonard. He is saying that the comet is at escape velocity and will escape our solar system. HOw is that possible since the comet has apparently made a previous revolution around the sun? Did it get a gravitational assist or something?