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Originally Posted by Halcyon Dayz
The comet is being discussed all over the board.
There is a box at the top of the screen that allows you to search for it.
And there are 2 (yes, two) sites associated with this board:
Universe Today and Bad Astronomy, <-- Click here
who both have something to say about it.
And here is a nice APOD-picture.
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Since there are already a number of threads on this, I thought I would put my question here. Are there any spacecraft planning or working at imaging Comet 17/P Holmes ? I have been wondering what the outburst might look like from another angle ? Then I noticed in the BA's Blog which is linked to in this thread, that Phil said something like, "it might not be a shell of debris but a jet of material pointing towards or away from us". It seems like an image from Cassini or New Horizons would be able to answer that, and would be very interesting anyway. Are there any other spacecraft that could give us an image from a sufficiently different angle.
I would bet that some spacecraft team is working on this, and we will be seeing a great APOD image any day now.
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