No Joke: April Fools' Comet to Pass Closest to Earth Since Discovery
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 17:31
in Astronomy & Space
An unusually favorable opportunity to view a famous periodic comet in small telescopes comes during the next couple of weeks, when Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák passes closer to Earth than at any return since its discovery in 1858.