[meteorite-list] Green Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Approaches

[Ron Baalke]

Space Weather News for Oct. 1, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

APPROACHING COMET: Green comet 103P/Hartley 2 is approaching 
Earth for a close encounter on Oct. 20th. At that time, the 
comet will be only 11 million miles (0.12 AU) from our planet 
and should be dimly visible to the naked eye from dark sky 
sites. It already looks great through backyard telescopes, as 
shown by images featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com. 
NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft is en route to this comet for 
close-up studies and a daring flyby on Nov. 4th.