Nasa’s Neowise mission discovers a comet that may be visible from the first week of 2017
Nasa’s Neowise mission has discovered two new objects. One is a comet that is likely to be visible over the first week of 2017, and the other is a mysterious object that appears to straddle the line between being a comet and an asteroid. None of the newly discovered objects are considered a threat to the Earth.
The comet has started emitting a plume of dust and water as it approaches the sun. The comet is likely to be visible from the Earth with a pair of binoculars, but the Nasa scientists cannot be sure because the brightness of a comet is notoriously hard to estimate. The object is designated as the C/2016 U1 NEOWISE and is in an extremely elliptical orbit around the sun. The comet will slingshot around the Sun on 14 January, and not revisit the Earth for thousands of years. ........ [Read More]
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