[meteorite-list] Green Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Approaches

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:49:01 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <201010012049.o91Kn1bd020031_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

Space Weather News for Oct. 1, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

APPROACHING COMET: Green comet 103P/Hartley 2 is approaching
Earth for a close encounter on Oct. 20th. At that time, the
comet will be only 11 million miles (0.12 AU) from our planet
and should be dimly visible to the naked eye from dark sky
sites. It already looks great through backyard telescopes, as
shown by images featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com.
NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft is en route to this comet for
close-up studies and a daring flyby on Nov. 4th.
Received on Fri 01 Oct 2010 04:49:01 PM PDT