June 2011, a New Comet was discovered at the Haleakala Summit telescope, this new discovered Comet is called C/2011L4PanStarrs, named after the telescope.

Now the interesting thing about this comet is the size of the thing, currently where it is near Jupiter, the diameter of this thing is around 10,000KM, the Earth is only 12000KM, as it approachs the Sun, the Comet will expand to a estimated 120,000KM, thats the size of Jupiter itself.

The comet on its present course will pass the Earth at 1.09 AU on March 10th 2013, and can be seen naked by the eye.

I am getting on a bit, but I dont remember ever having a year where there was going to be two visable comets in the same year as there will be another one sometime in December called ISON..

Very interesting times in our local Solar system lately.