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- Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Theoretical closest approach of SWAN to Earth orbit (4Oct06)
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Theoretical closest approach of SWAN to Earth orbit (4Oct06)
APOD of 2006-10-04. I followed the link of "Comet SWAN" to the small body database browser http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=dK06M040;orb=1;cov=0#orb . When passing the Earth orbit, our planet seems to be nearly on the opposite side of the sun. But how close would the comet have been to ...