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Old 03-03-2013, 04:30 PM
Greg Bryant
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Today saw the publication of pre-discovery observations from last October, extending the arc quite significantly. The "miss" distance continues to move closer to Mars, and an impact (albeit extremely unlikely) still can't be ruled out.

I've been keeping an eye on the updates since January when the close approach was first identified, and it's been interesting to see the path keep getting closer.

The latest orbit has the comet's nominal miss distance at just 0.00036 au.

Greg
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