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Comets and Asteroids and Meteors, Oh My!

I am more than a little disappointed in "The Year of the Comet." Couldn't even see ISON, and with heavy-duty binoculars PanSTARRS was just a smudge - about as visually interesting as an airplane contrail near the horizon at sunset. Bah.

Well, from that perspective it ended appropriately.
 
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'Monster' asteroid 4 times than the UK is so close to Earth you can see it - and here's how

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An enormous asteroid has come so close to Earth that it is visible to the naked eye.

The space rock, known as 4 Vesta is four times the size of the UK and so bright that it can be spotted from 106 million miles away.

It is visible in both hemispheres, where it can be seen in the night sky near Mars, Saturn and the Sagittarius constellation.

The asteroid measures more than 326 miles in diameter, 50 times wider than the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, will be visible in the night sky until July 16.

Vesta was first discovered in 1807 and was named after the Roman goddess of the hearth and home, who is sister to Ceres – the name of the largest asteroid in the belt, which measures 587 miles in diameter.

Ceres was recently reclassified as a dwarf planet.

The rock resides in the asteroid belt and is one of the largest known to man.

From Earth, the immense stone appears as a dim yellow dot.

Entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018...-close-to-earth-can-see-it-and-heres-how.html
 
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