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Old 03-12-2010, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Mariposa View Post
How about that coment 45P Honda which will pass near Earth on August 15th next year?.....y read that it will be well placed for southern hemisphere viewers. I think it will reach magnitude 7 (that doesn't sound like naked eye, but it might be interesting with moderate telescopes).
A really fun website is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory orbit plotter. Just plug in a comet name and you will get the orbit animated and you can watch it go!

Richard
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