> i'd love to hear your rebuttals so i > can sleep easy.
1. Mass of comet 2. Distance between comet and Earth 3. Mass of moon 4. Distance between moon and Earth 5. Inverse square law
In order to have more effect than the moon, it would need to be about 10000 times as massive as the moon when it makes its closest approach in October. If any of what he said was true, and the alignment were boosting the effects, the whole planet would be ripped apart whenever there was an eclipse.
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