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• TITLE: Giant Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) Provides New Evidence for Cometary Panspermia

  AUTHORS: N. Chandra Wickramasinghe

  KEYWORDS: Comets, Cometary Activity, Bacteria and Viruses, Panspermia

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.12 No.1, February 11, 2022

  ABSTRACT: The discovery of a giant comet (C/2014 UN271) at a distance of 29 AU in October 2014 and the later discovery in September 2021 of a dramatic brightening episode offers an ideal opportunity for verifying the predictions of a “biological” comet. The eruptions of the comet at a heliocentric distance of 20 AU are plausibly explained as due to high pressure venting of the products of microbial metabolism in radioactively heated subsurface lakes. The standard non-biological model of comets is woefully inadequate to account for eruptions at such large distances from the sun where surface temperatures are as low as 60 K.