Hartley 2 visible in night sky
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only the fifth in history to be imaged close up. Comet Hartley 2 will come within 17.7 million kilometres (11 million miles) of Earth this Wed., Oct. 20 at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT). NASA's EPOXI mission will come within 700 kilometres (435 miles) of Hartley 2 on Nov. 4...
