It crosses the plane of Earth orbit well inside of recovery orbit and almost near the orbit of Mercury, so there's absolutely no hazard from this comet," Lindley Johnson, the planetary defense officer and program executive of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA Headquarters, said during the news conference.
"So that's a lot of water."
The comet orbits the sun every 600 to 700 years, Johnson said. "Marine dies, 8 missing after assault vehicle sank off coast of Calif.At least 150 hospitalized due to salmonella outbreak in 48 states(Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab/Parker Solar Probe/Brendan Gallagher)Comet NEOWISE: 10 big questions (and answers) about the icy wandererShow full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. A zoomed in view of Comet NEOWISE photographed from the Record-Journal on South Broad Street in Meriden, Mon., Jul. "It's rare to see something that's this bright," she added. By watching its motion, we can see that it's bound to the sun's gravity," Kramer said. Instead, the comet, known officially as C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) — or just comet Neowise for short — is providing an unexpected bright spot in the lives of quarantined astronomers. "So it's coming in very rapidly and then it's going to go far back out again and then but then should come back in again in about 6,800 years. If you spot Comet NEOWISE, let us know! This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.JOHNSON CITY, NY - After being closed for 4 and a half months, shoppers are once again strolling the concourse of the Oakdale Mall.The mall reopened Friday now that it has acquired and installed the necessary filters for its heating and air system as required by Governor Cuomo.BINGHAMTON, NY - Here are the latest coronavirus numbers for Broome County, according to the county's website.There are currently 133 active cases, down 6 from yesterday.ENDICOTT, NY - An Endicott man is going to prison for shaking a baby.26 year-old Kelvin Lebron was found guilty at trial in February for the Reckless Assault of a child. Joe Masiero, deputy principal investigator of the NEOWISE mission, said the the comet is moving about twice as fast as the Earth's speed around the sun. But don't expect that rapid clip to last. The brightest comet to appear in Northern Hemisphere skies in nearly a quarter of a century will soon be ending its run as a naked-eye object. Now, for keen observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the comet has been getting higher in the evening sky, sparkling northwest below the Big Dipper constellation, Officially known as C/2020 F3, Comet NEOWISE is a comet that was discovered on March 27, 2020, by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting afterlife of the Yes! The comet is currently about 70 million miles (111 million kilometers) away from Earth.No, Comet NEOWISE originates in our own solar system. Researchers studying Comet NEOWISE might actually also have a Comet NEOWISE is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter, "which is a reasonably large but roughly average-size comet," Kramer said.
