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Explanation: A bright comet will be visible during next month's total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks 's return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth's April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to the ...
Jean Louis Pons (Marseille, France) discovered this comet on 1812 July 21.07 UT. He said it was located in Lynx. Pons described it as a small, ill-defined nebulosity, without a tail, and not visible to the naked eye. Independent discoveries were made by Wisniewsky (Russia) on August 1 and Bouvard (France) on August 2.
Comet Pons-Brooks 1. Caption: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is making its first visit to the inner solar system in more than 70 years, could be visible to the naked eye over the next few weeks. Credit: Stuart Atkinson. Comet Pons-Brooks 2. Caption: The Mount Everest-sized comet is due to make its closest approach to the Sun on 21 April.
Explanation: Heading for its next perihelion passage on April 21, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. The greenish coma of this periodic Halley-type comet has become relatively easy to observe in small telescopes. But the bluish ion tail now streaming from the active comet's coma and buffeted by the solar wind, is faint and difficult to ...
12 de mar. de 2024 · You can also watch the comet fly past our spiralling galactic neighbor in real time, thanks to an upcoming livestream. Comet 12P/Pons Brooks (12P), also known as the devil comet, is a 10.5-mile ...
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La Cometa Pons-Brooks, formalmente 12P/Pons-Brooks, è una cometa periodica del Sistema solare, appartenente alla famiglia cometaria della cometa di Halley. La cometa è stata scoperta il 12 luglio 1812 da Jean-Louis Pons dall' Osservatorio di Marsiglia ed, indipendentemente , il 1º agosto da Vincent Wisniewski ed il 2 agosto da Alexis Bouvard .
From Virginia Beach , 12P/Pons-Brooks is not observable – it will reach its highest point in the sky during daytime and is 27° below the horizon at dusk. All times shown in Virginia Beach local time. The position of this comet was calculated from orbital elements published by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) .
