Credit & Copyright: Wil Milan
Explanation:
Just possibly, a new
comet may become bright enough to see without
binoculars later this month.
Comet C/1999 S4 LINEAR is rapidly approaching both the
Earth and the
Sun from the outer
Solar System,
and should be at its brightest around 2000 July 25
in the early evening sky of northern observers.
The
comet was discovered
by chance by
project LINEAR last September.
The
above time-lapse sequence of Comet LINEAR was taken on 2000 July 2 from
Arizona
and shows the comet's movement over only 19 minutes.
Although
Comet LINEAR's positions will be known quite accurately,
the comet's future brightness and
tail length can only be guessed,
and it is quite possible that neither will become very impressive.
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See also:
- Comet at Moonrise
- APOD: 2024 September 30 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over Mexico
- APOD: 2024 September 25 Á Comet A3 Through an Australian Sunrise
- APOD: 2024 September 23 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Approaches
- Periodic Comet Swift Tuttle
- Comet 13P Olbers
- APOD: 2024 June 4 Á Comet Pons Brooks Develops Opposing Tails