Nasa’s Neowise mission discovers a comet that may be visible from the first week of 2017

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 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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