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Three Month Composite of Comet Holmes

apod.nasa.gov — Explanation: How has Comet Holmes changed? Since brightening unexpectedly by nearly one million fold in late October, the last three months have found the coma of Comet 17P/Holmes both expanding and fading.

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  • blbaron, on 02/05/2008, -1/+0Comet Holmes was a treat for visual observing in the first several weeks of its outburst. Once it became too diffuse to see easily, it has been interesting to monitor through the photographic submissions at APOD, Spaceweather.com and others. It will be interesting to see if there is another outburst on the comet's next pass in a few years!
  • jamessavik, on 02/05/2008, -0/+1From the APOD article: "the comet is hard to see without long photographic exposures, but on such exposures the comet may still be an impressive sight."

    Visible comets are fairly rare and the ancients used to think that they heralded disaster.

    Considering the available presidential candidates, they just might be right.
  • cky888, on 02/20/2008, -0/+0yeaheyaheyaheyaheayheayheayheayheayehyeayeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah afk
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