A bright green ‘Christmas comet’ will fly the closest to earth in centuries

Good Tidings to all and Merry Christmas.

The Christmas comet orbits the sun once every 5.4 years and passes by Earth approximately every 11 years but it is rarely this close.

Something to offset the fury of Political smack..
If it brings us good tidings, then hell, I welcome it, the World could use a little goodness with all the that's going on right now.

Look into the night sky Sunday and you just might see a bright, fuzzy ball with a greenish-gray tint. That's because a comet that orbits between Jupiter and the sun will make its closest approach to Earth in centuries.

"The fuzziness is just because it's a ball of gas basically," Tony Farnham, a research scientist in the astronomy department at the University of Maryland, said Saturday morning after a long night studying the comet at the Discovery Channel Telescope, about 40 miles southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. "You've got a 1-kilometre solid nucleus in the middle, and gas is going out hundreds of thousands of miles."

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a reply to: ViXxeN

thanks for sharing, for those who are interested here is how you can spot it

a reply to: Dr UAE

Thanks for the map, nice!

Comets are thought to be harbingers from a historical context

Big changes in our near future?

a reply to: toysforadults

may be to those who are superstitious ?

a reply to: Dr UAE

Or to those who can understand

You may not be one of them

a reply to: ViXxeN

To cloudy in my area to see it.

Someone beat you to it
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Hope this is Nostradamus comet and great warning comet....

a reply to: scraedtosleep

Ah well, there's always the Internet. Not the same as the real thing though is it.

Uh oh!!! Maximum overdrive is getting a sequel when th e green comet passes by eh?

Really close you say... Let me guess, about 4 millions miles away or some crazy figure they usually quote

a reply to: JPtruther

I guess we'll see when Santa Claus gets here. Maybe he'll enter Earths atmosphere with a bang.