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TULSA, Okla. — According to NASA, the recently discovered Comet Leonard is acceptable to alert by Earth adjacent week and we whitethorn get to spot it present successful Oklahoma!
The comet was discovered earlier this twelvemonth by astronomer Gregory Leonard, hence its name.
It's the largest comet ever observed, astir a 1000 times bigger than a emblematic one!
Leonard is already disposable earlier the prima rises. NASA says you tin spot it by looking betwixt the Big Dipper's grip and Arcturus.
However, you whitethorn inactive request binoculars oregon a scope to spot it.
Dec. 12 is erstwhile it volition beryllium astatine its closest constituent to Earth... and it volition inactive beryllium much than 21 cardinal miles away.
Distance aside, Gregory Leonard told Inverse this volition beryllium the lone accidental stargazers volition get to spot the comet which whitethorn person visited our Solar System 75,000 to 80,000 years ago.
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