[MIham] Green Comet Approaches Earth

[Frank]

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.

UPSIDE-DOWN LIGHTNING OVER THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER:  An amateur 
photographer has photographed rare lightning-like discharges called 
"gigantic jets" shooting up from storm clouds near NASA's Kennedy Space 
Center.  Visit http://spaceweather.com for a movie and more information 
about the phenomenon.