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New Comet Could Be Brightest Ever Seen

9/27/2012

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I know I speak for all of us when I say this would be the most spectacular astronomical event of our lifetimes...if it pans out.
In late 2013, Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) will make a very close approach to the sun. When it emerges from the back side of the sun to reveal itself in all its glory, it could rival the brightness of Venus in the evening sky.
Read more about it here...
http://tinyurl.com/9d77mvc

Lets get our hopes up on this one. 


-Scott Griswold
Horizons Docent
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