Newslink: No Joke: April Fools' Comet to Pass Closest to Earth Since Discovery
An unusually favorable opportunity to view a famous periodic comet in small telescopes comes during the next couple of weeks, when Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák passes closer to Earth than at any return since its discovery in 1858.
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