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Old 03-06-2007, 06:53 PM
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Comets to ponder!

Hey guys!

I was reading an interesting NEO page about future close-approaches to Earth by comets....

Comet P/2002 O5 (NEAT) will miss Earth by 30,188,876 kms on the 14th of July 2007.

8P/Tuttle will miss us by 37,653,816 kms on the 1st of January 2008

But i like this one!
45P/ Honda-Mrkos- Pajdusakova will miss us by 8,975,880 kms on the 15th of August 2011.....and with sunspot activity near maximum i wonder if this will be a spectacular naked eye object!?

Can anyone elaborate on this?
Cheers!
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