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To: missyme
Helps to have dark sky. Helps to be familiar with this most familiar of areas of the sky, more south of zenith, almost overhead, right of Orion, below Taurus and a moon's width (not exact) below the Seven Sisters.

EZ with binoculars... looks like a distant star shell with a parachute.

They're calling it The Green Comet, and it does look a tinge green, at that.

1,200 year orbit, with a parahelion a bit less than than an AU. Already on it's way out, I think, way, way out to the Oort Cloud.

I wonder why it's green.

7 posted on 01/04/2005 8:55:42 PM PST by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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To: Prospero

Tomorrow is suppose to be the night to see it if you have a clear sky...


8 posted on 01/04/2005 9:02:26 PM PST by missyme
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To: Prospero
This is a great photo of it
9 posted on 01/04/2005 9:14:16 PM PST by missyme
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To: Prospero
I wonder why it's green.

Motion sickness?

10 posted on 01/04/2005 9:18:08 PM PST by Petruchio (<===Looks Sexy in a flightsuit . . . Looks Silly in a french maid outfit)
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To: Prospero

"I wonder why it's green."

Because green is the color of Christmas. This is a Christmas comet, therefore it's color could only be green.


15 posted on 01/04/2005 9:47:44 PM PST by TAquinas
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