Nov 16 2007
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Comet Now Bigger Than The Sun
I’ve been following this story for a a couple of weeks, but short-period comet Holmes has now brightened to over a million times its usual faint self. According to astronomers, Holmes’ diameter is now 5000 miles larger than the sun’s. It has been visible with the unaided eye since an outgassing event on October 23rd, and should be easily seen as a “fuzzy ball” for the next couple of weeks in the northeastern sky. Good backyard telescopes may resolve a faint tail.
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November 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
I’ve been looking for Comet Holmes on
my nighly walks for a week now-it would be better to have a decent telescope or
a pair of binoculars. Its great to hear
stories like this ( even though the headline is a bit…not misleading, but
sensational. The body of the comet is only a little over two kilometers in diameter, after all )even though it makes me wish we had a decent presence
in space, instead of that closet we call
the ISS…
November 19th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
craig,
I should have clarified that its coma/ debris cloud was what had grown. The linked article explains this, I think.