[RightWhale]

Conditions for seeing this object will be poor at best here. It might be possible, but only for hardcore astronomers. We'll have to rely on those in temperate climates for reports.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Astronomy Fun Fact: 65 million years ago -- A 10-kilometer
asteroid struck north of the Yucatan
Peninsula, caused a global firestorm, then a cold
snap and finally a global warming that
extinguished the dinosaurs. How Sen. Hollings survived this catastrophe remains a mystery to the present day.