Comet in close proximity to pass by earth on Sunday

This is an interesting news that I came across at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest comet flybys of Earth on Dec 16th and depending on your location should be visible without a telescope.

Although the approach will be a distant 7.1 million miles (11.4 million kilometers, or 30 lunar distances) from Earth, it’s still a fairly rare opportunity. “This will be the closest comet Wirtanen has come to Earth for centuries and the closest it will come to Earth for centuries,” said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. What’s more, Chodas said, “This could be one of the brightest comets in years, offering astronomers an important opportunity to study a comet up close with ground-based telescopes, both optical and radar.”

Astronomical discoveries are getting more and more coverage Online these days – and this is a very positive development.

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