A Very Promising Comet!
The MAPS comet was discovered a few months ago by a group of French amateur astronomers based in Antibes, in the Alpes-Maritimes region. Since then, it had generated great expectations among astronomers and space enthusiasts, especially because of its potential to become a “Great Comet,” that is, a comet visible from Earth.
This comet was identified at the end of March as a low-inclination comet belonging to the Kreutz family, a group whose perihelion lies very close to the Sun. Some of these comets are known as “great comets” and are visible near the Sun even in broad daylight. The most recent was Comet Ikeya-Seki, observed in 1965 and considered one of…
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