Experts Suggest Comet Ison is a Dust Ball ?

Listening to experts including experts from Nasa discussing Comet Ison in the Comet Ison workshop , which is still on line, see the link below, it was worrying to have an expert query whether the comet is a dust ball. If it is ice, they foresee the water will evaporate from the comet, and produce beautiful pictures. But if it is a dust ball, what then.?
Our Earth is going to pass through Ison’s tail, if it is a dust ball, there is a possibility that the dust and gases in the tail could contain cyanide which could pollute the water.
They are monitoring this comet a bit too closely for my liking. They are measuring the water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, size of the nuclei, but no-one has mentioned measuring it for cyanide gas, so why are they not discussing this if it is common for this gas to be produced from comets? They want every telescope pointed at it, and have spacecraft on Mars, and in space monitoring it, and are sending balloons up to measure the gases it produces.
Experts have already predicted that we will go through its tail.
There is also the possibility the comet will split and fragment either before it reaches the sun, or just after, what happens to the path of these fragments? They have not started monitoring it properly yet, and cannot even tell us its size, this I find too hard to believe, instead they are predicting it to be no bigger than 2 KM. If it is small then there is a higher likelihood it will fragment.
There may even be a possibility that they could come our way, or our planet may in fact travel through the debris after this has happened, because they can’t predict if it will split or not, and when it will split.
If the guy at the workshop was uneasy in case it was a dust ball, then I certainly am.

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