SCP-4306

C/200█ AB as seen in telescope imagery.

Item #: SCP-4306

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: This object cannot be contained as it has already been vaporized by the Sun after it strayed too close. However, SCP-4265 is a suspected fragment from this comet and is contained in Site [REDACTED]. It is subject to its own containment procedures.

Description: C/200█ AB was the name given to a newly discovered comet on the 12/██/200█, and at the time was located at a distance of 34 AUs from the Sun. It was found by Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in northern Chile and initial observations suggested that it had a diameter of 8 Km. Its trajectory was found to take it deep into the Oort cloud as it is classified as a long period comet and there are supposed recordings of it being observed by ancient Chinese astronomers around the year 1200 BCE. This comet caught the attention of the SCP Foundation as it was thought that SCP-4265 originated from it, and that SCP-4265 contained the newly discovered Uranium isotope, Uranium^██. If this is true, then comet C/200█ AB (SCP-4306) must've also contained an unimaginable abundance of the material.

Further calculations suggested that the comet's trajectory will be affected by the gas-giant Jupiter, and that it will take a 'death plunge' when it reaches the sun. Later that year, it reached perihelion on the 26/██/200█ where it strayed too far into the sun's Roche limit and reached 960,002 Km from the surface of the sun when the nucleus began to collapse and split into approximately 4 major fragments and 14 other minor fragments, which in turn began a plunge into the sun where it was completely destroyed. It is currently unknown if there any surviving remnants of comet C/200█ AB (SCP-4306), although the Foundation, along with most of the science community, suggests that SCP 4265 is indeed a surviving fragment from C/200█ AB (SCP-4306). This is yet to be officially validated.