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Questions to do with celestial comets.

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Does it make any scientific sense that a comet coming to crush Earth would appear "sideways"...

Remember that the Earth itself is moving around the Sun, so if a comet is heading for Earth, that means it's heading for a point where Earth will eventually be, not where it currently is. … It would therefore be possible to see such a comet be "sideways". …
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