It
appears that we have a bright comet heading this way in late next
year. What we know right now is that it will be bright and possibly
super bright before it is all over. So it is worth the effort to be
ready for it.
This
could also be a major outgasser and provide us with a giant tail to
watch. Cross your fingers.
In
the event this is our first notice and I am sure it will be followed
with plenty of other stories. It has real potential to be
spectacular although folks will keep quiet because we have been
skunked before. This at least seems to be a new event.
Astronomers have
discovered a new supercomet that will be fifteen times brighter than
the moon when it crosses the night sky next year.
Coming to the night
sky, the comet fifteen times brighter than the moon
Calculations show that
the celestial visitor could be dazzlingly bright in November 2013 and
be easily visible in broad daylight as it rounds the Sun.
Comet ISON is so named
because it was first spotted on photos taken by Vitali Nevski and
Artyom Novichonok from Russia using the International Scientific
Optical Network telescope.
It is currently very
faint because it is out in the depths of space near Jupiter's orbit.
But it will steadily brighten over the coming months until it passes
less than two million km from the Sun on November 28.
That makes it a type
of comet called a sungrazer, and there is a risk that the comet -
essentially a giant ball of rock and ice, will break up when it makes
that close approach.
But it could become
brighter than the greatest comet of the last century, Comet
Ikeya-Seki, which excited astronomers in 1965.
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