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To: smokingfrog

As long as it doesn't gamma-ray us, yes. It would be quite a show. Brighter than the Moon, visible in the daytime, for months, then gone forever.

And at 640 light years away, it could have already done it, or it could be a couple of thousand years off yet.

17 posted on 06/09/2009 10:08:55 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))

To: PeaceBeWithYou

639 years away, anyway.

JJ61

24 posted on 06/09/2009 10:26:08 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)

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