Anonymous Coward User ID: 13671818 Russia 04/02/2012 02:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century According to astronomer Leonid Elenin, researcher of the Russian Institute of Applied Mathematics- the comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) in the spring of 2013 could become the brightest comet of all the comets, that were observed in the 21st century on Earth. Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) was found a group of observers from the Pan-STARRS observatory 1 (PS1) in the course of events search for Earth-threatening objects. According to scientists, the comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) in the first and last time closer to the Sun at a distance of 48 million kilometers in April 2013, as the comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) arrived in the our solar system from outside. It is expected, that by March 2013 a brightness of comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) could reach at least the first magnitude, but in December 2012 in the morning, the comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) will be visible to the naked eye in the Scorpius constellation. By the end of February 2013 a brightness of comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) will reach the second magnitude, and it will be visible in during evening twilight near 24-Alpha Piscis Austrini - Fomalhaut (Fomalhaut), and already in the first week of March 2013 the brightness of the comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) will reach the level of first magnitude... MORE AND VIDEO IN: [ link to hainanwel.com] |
Too Dark Park
User ID: 13667123 United States 04/02/2012 02:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13672575 United Kingdom 04/02/2012 03:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century Good find OP, and one to watch for.
However, it should really say "...brightest comet so far in the 21st Century". We're only 12 years in, so there could easily be brighter comets still to come. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13689963 Russia 04/02/2012 12:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century |
SallieSunshine
User ID: 11447731 United States 09/02/2012 10:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century There is a big write-up on Panstarrs in the 2013 Farmer's Almanac. |
Stella Maris User ID: 33510966 Hungary 02/02/2013 10:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century Freewares for everyone - keeping track of these Comets of 2013 with the exact ecliptical positions and many more: PANSTARRS C/2013 L4 Astrology Viewer [ link to www.inner-sky.com] ISON Comet Astrology Viewer [ link to www.inner-sky.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 12534895 United States 02/23/2013 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS in 2013 will be the brightest comet in the 21st Century |