James Webb, Halley's Comet might be set for cosmic dust-up
The James Webb Space Telescope is predicted to pass through Halley's Comet's debris trail next year, meaning that particles could further endanger its sensitive primary mirror.with far more clarity than Hubble, it also has nothing to shield it from sand grain-sized debris traveling at 10km/second, or 6.2 miles/second ., but which NASA was able to correct for., but the bright tail trailing out behind it is filled with dust, debris and ice shed by the comet.
It's that debris field that JWST is predicted to enter in 2023 and 2024., meteor shower dust like that left behind by Halley only constitutes around 5 percent of the impact risk to Webb, while the rest is from random hits from stray dust.
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