Sunday, February 22, 2009

SEE THE COMET ON TUESDAY MORNING

In 2007, Chinese college student Quanzhi Ye discovered a new comet. That celestial body - Comet Lulin - will be making its closest approach to Earth this Tuesday morning. You'll need to get up nice and early to see it (or stay up late)...1:00 AM.
Here's a NASA story about the comet:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/04feb_greencomet.htm

For detailed information about how to track the comet, visit http://spaceweather.com

Unfortunately, the forecast for Monday night (Tuesday morning) is calling for mostly cloudy skies in Gasport.