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‘Twin’ Comets Headed for close approaches to the Earth in March 2016 – Historic Record-Breaking Comet Flyby, Eyes on the Skies (+Video)
Twin Comets Headed for close approaches to Earth Record-Breaking Comet Flyby on March 2016
March turns out to be the month of great celestial events in 2016.
On March 21 the comet 252P/LINEAR 12 will make its closest approach yet, passing just 3.1 million miles (5.3 million km) since 1983.
In 1983 comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock made the closest approach to Earth at 2.9 million miles (4.7 million km) of any comet in 200 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_IRAS%E2%80%93Araki%E2%80%93Alcock
Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) is set to pass by Earth at a distance of 2.1 million miles (3.5 million km).
This is a record-breaking approach to Earth for a comet!!!
Comet’s P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) passage will be the closest known comet flyby of the last 230 hundred years. Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey
on 2016 Jan 22.
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~msk/blog/articles/comet-p2016ba14-feb16
http://http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
In 1983 comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock made the closest approach to Earth at 2.9 million miles (4.7 million km) of any comet in 200 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_IRAS%E2%80%93Araki%E2%80%93Alcock
Clips credit: ESO, ESA/HUBBLE & NASA
Images credit: Michael S. P. Kelley and Silvia Protopapa, Getty images.
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