NEW UPDATE regarding the comets.
May 3rd, 2004
"Astronomy Picture of the Day"
Title: "Comet Bradfield and LINEAR Rising"
Quote: (Middle-section of article)
"...Having just rounded the Sun itself, Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) is now moving toward EARTH. Although instrinsically fading, T7 will appear to brighten until about MID-May and so continue to be visible to the unaided eye before sunrise to southern hemisphere observers into June. Comet Q4 the third coincidental naked eye comet, will become visible in MID-May to northern hemisphere observers."
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040503.html * Information and data provided by NASA *
I wonder how many people after seeing this photo wonder, how comes Bradfield was discovered just days before perihelion ...