[FOTZeiss] Fw: Green Comet Approaches Earth

[Glenn A. Walsh]

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--- On Fri, 10/1/10, SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com> wrote:

> From: SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com>
> Subject: Green Comet Approaches Earth
> To: "SpaceWeather.com" <swlist at spaceweather.com>
> Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 12:01 PM
> 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.  
> 
> UPSIDE-DOWN LIGHTNING OVER THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER: 
> An amateur photographer has photographed rare lightning-like
> discharges called "gigantic jets" shooting up from storm
> clouds near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.  Visit http://spaceweather.com for a movie and more
> information about the phenomenon.
> 
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