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Credit & Copyright: Gordon Garradd
Explanation:
Another large snowball is falling toward the Sun.
Comet Lee was discovered two weeks ago by
Steve Lee
(AAO) in
Australia, and is expected to brighten
as it approaches the inner
Solar System.
Comet Lee is not expected to become a
naked-eye object, though, with
recent projections guessing it will
peak at magnitude 7 in July.
Starting in May, the
large piece of dirty ice officially known as
Comet C/1999 H1 Lee will be
visible to northern observers. Comet Lee is the
fuzzy patch in the
above picture
taken on April 16 from
Loomberah,
Australia.
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 16 Á A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- APOD: 2024 November 11 Á The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas
- APOD: 2024 November 6 Á Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
- APOD: 2024 October 21 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over California
- Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away
- Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS