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(meteorobs) Comet going south, leaving northern view
Lew wrote:
>"SORT OF" ON-TOPIC - i.e., "WELCOME ANY TIME THE LIST IS QUIET":
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>3) Important announcements and discussion about comets and asteroids
Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR). Just a note to northern hemisphere folks
that this comet, magnitude currently about +5.6 and brightening, is
going south rapidly. This weekend will be the last pretty good one
even for us at only 30 degrees north. I heard from an Australian
friend that it's easy to see with 7x35 binoculars. Those at dark
sites might see it without magnification. Here's the Minor Planet
Center's daily ephemeris:
http://cfa-www.harvarddot edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2000WM1_1.html
Higher precision, more detailed ephemerides are available from:
http://ssd.jpl.nasadot gov/horizons.html
This comet is featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day for Dec. 6.
The Dec. 5 picture is a *really* nice photo of a more than 100 (?)
Leonids taken by Chen Huang-Ming from Taiwan:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasadot gov/apod/ap011205.html
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
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