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Topic: Newly-discovered Comet Nevski
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ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 09-25-2012 03:50 PM
   
Newly-discovered Comet Nevski is headed into the inner Solar System. It's more than 8 A.U. distant and far too faint for even medium-sized telescopes to see at present. However, the orbital computations suggest that it will make a very close approach to Earth in November-December 2013. As it goes through the inner Solar System, it will be moving eastward in the sky along with the Sun as it approaches Earth, so it will stay visible for quite a while. We could be in for a spectacular cometary display in the last week of November next year! Stay tuned! |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-25-2012 07:36 PM
Or it could turn out to be another Comet KohoutekSincerely -
Debbie Downer |
canyon42
Member Posts: 238
From: Ohio
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 09-25-2012 09:43 PM
It's actually the sun that it will be making an unusually close approach to, rather than the Earth. Still, it has the potential to be a spectacular sight--IF it survives its perihelion passage. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 09-27-2012 03:34 PM
Even better... the big show (if it works) will be seen from the Northern Hemisphere. Sorry Australia, it's our turn for the big one.  |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-27-2012 03:45 PM
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Originally posted by SpaceAholic:
Or it could turn out to be another Comet Kohoutek
Don't knock Kohoutek. It was a naked-eye comet. I saw it one night in (I think) 1974. It was quite clear, with a significant tail. It was only my second naked-eye comet, after the truly wonderful Comet Bennett in 1970. My total to date is only five. |
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