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Almost 100 earthquakes shook Iceland from midnight today, as the country remains apprehensive about an imminent eruption.. The strongest earthquake with a magnitude of 3.35 hit Vatnafjoll in South ...
479P/Elenin, with provisional designation P/ 2011 NO 1 (Elenin), is a periodic comet with an orbital period estimated at 13.3 years. [ 4 ] The comet was discovered on 7 July 2011 [ 2 ] when the comet was 2.38 AU from the Sun and 1.4 AU from the Earth and had an apparent magnitude of 19.5.
He told news site RUV: “This is very bad news. One of the most serious scenarios is an eruption in the town itself, similar to that in Vestmannaeyjar , 50 years ago.
The discoverer, Leonid Elenin, originally estimated that the comet nucleus was 3–4 km in diameter, [7] but more recent estimates place the pre-breakup size of the comet at 2 km. [8] Comet Elenin started disintegrating in August 2011, [9] and as of mid-October 2011 was not visible even using large ground-based telescopes.
Leonid Elenin works for the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics [1] and lives in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, Russia. [2] Leonid Elenin is best known for discovering the comet C/2010 X1 on 10 December 2010. [2] Elenin then discovered comet P/2011 NO1 on 7 July 2011. [3] As of 2019, Elenin had discovered five comets. [4]
Páll Einarsson. 100 earthquakes hit Iceland since midnight. 09:11, Lydia Patrick. The strongest earthquake with a magnitude of 3.35 hit Vatnafjoll in South Iceland this morning at 5.56am, report ...
An Icelandic volcano could erupt in ‘hours or days’, experts have warned, as 3,000 residents have been evacuated from the southwestern town of Grindavik.. After 1,485 earthquakes have rocked ...
There were fears amongst the public that Comet Elenin travelling almost directly between Earth and the Sun would cause disturbances to the Earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes and tidal waves. Others predicted that Elenin would collide with Earth on 16 October. Scientists tried to calm fears by stating that none of these events were possible.