New Comet Discovered By Canadian Astronomer

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 13:35 in Astronomy & Space

Rob Cardinal was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a comet. There is not much known yet about the Cardinal comet. Scientists are trying to determine more information about its orbit, whether its passing by Earth is periodic or whether it will only come by the sun once, which would mean its orbit is parabolic.

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