We hearing that hopefully when it warms up and gets closer to the sun it will wake up and start transmitting again.
Do they have an estimate of when it will be destroyed because it's too close to the sun?
Do they have an estimate of when it will be destroyed because it's too close to the sun?
But that does not mean all comets survive their close approach to the Sun. Some, such as the sungrazing comets[0], come quite close to the surface and can be destroyed by their encounters with the Sun.
As jnevill points out, this particular comet's orbit does not take it closer to the Sun than the Earth's distance from the Sun. The comet is on a ~6yr orbit, I believe, and so should survive for a long period of time.