Researchers Catch Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol

[DPolo]

It should get a DUI for all that booze !

[artemis agrotera]

I admit, I laughed that an Australian located this comet... it kinda fits

Drunk comet 'Lovejoy' spews up 500 bottles of booze per second

[Matadora]

Originally Posted by 303Guy

My question is; where did all that alcohol come from? And what about this;
Twenty sons every second! How long did it do this for? Just how big is this thing? (And what can we do to capture some of that alcohol?)

Does not sound like the have a definitive answer but...

Astronomers think comets preserve material from the ancient cloud of gas and dust that formed the solar system.

In unexpected discovery, comet contains alcohol, sugar

[arleigh]

Paris makes this determination it alcohol ?
Sounds like they've been consuming it way too long.