UPDATE: COMET DRAMA

Comet comes close in 2005
Comet breaks into numerous fragments.
[link to www.spacetelescope.org]

(as) Comet comes close in April 2006
Main Comet fragments and begins to crumble and huge chunks fall off and behind and veer away chaoticly and are left behind as some of these fragments will criss cross all around Earth's orbital ring as Earth swings around on approach.

NASA assures that original "named" cometary fragments will pass at a safe distance for each "main sizeable" "named" fragments...

However wild card fragments may make life interesting and even prove to put on an interesting show for us here on Earth to say the least---

VIDEO LINKS:
[link to www.spacetelescope.org]
[link to www.spacetelescope.org]

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Fragment 'S' 'breakup payload' development?:

pull up animation--
allow to load--
set to June 13th--
zoom in--
play with latitude controls on R --

[link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]

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Fragment 'BD' 'breakup payload' development?:

pull up animation--
allow to load--
set to June 5th--
zoom in--
play with latitude controls on R --

[link to neo.jpl.nasa.gov]

The Hubble space telescope-- along with other Infrared asteroid tracking scopes can and should provide us with more pics and data as things progress...

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