Comet McNaught – Retrospective

[Article] Around the globe, the McNaught comet brightened the skies. As it moves further from the sun and fades back into darkness, a lot of people are wondering when they’re going to see it again. Unfortunately, it is almost completely certain that they won’t.


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Comet McNaught (aka C/2007 P1), named after its discoverer, Rob McNaught, and Australian member of the Near Earth Asteroid Survey team, is a non-periodic comet. This means that its orbit is highly parabolic, and we will not see the comet again for thousands of years, if at all. Bright comets are...
This article was published Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 by AFP
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