Scientists on the look-out for a 'Hartley-id' Meteor Shower
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
This month, Comet Hartley 2 has put on a good show for backyard astronomers. The comet's vivid green atmosphere and auburn tail of dust look great through small telescopes, and NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI probe is about to return even more dramatic pictures when it flies past the comet's nucleus on Nov. 4th.
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