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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks
NASA ^
| 8 Apr, 2024
| Image Credit & Copyright: Shengyu Li & Shaining
Posted on 04/08/2024 12:50:58 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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04/08/2024 12:51:17 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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04/08/2024 12:51:56 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Is it my imagination or is this comet coming in ‘retrograde’?...............
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posted on
04/08/2024 1:20:40 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Here's my favorite comet:
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It’s too bad we don’t have a space probe doing a close fly-by of PONS-Brooks.
It would’ve been fascinating to see what was going on with the nucleus….
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posted on
04/08/2024 6:11:14 PM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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