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Coming Soon: Comet Ikeya-Zhang

Posted by michael on from the whizbang dept.

Bill Kendrick writes: "Space.com reports that a newly discovered comet is approaching the sun and earth. No, this one won't hit us, but it should make for a good show. It'll be closest to the sun on March18th. Here's a diagram of its orbit."

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  1. Astronomy Picture of the Day by Klox · · Score: 4, Informative

    This happens to be the subject of today's APOD.

  2. Load this comet into your xephem program! by LauraLolly · · Score: 4, Informative

    The orbital elements are available for download into many popular astronomy programs, including xephem, the open source x-windows program.