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		<title>New EPOXI images of Comet Hartley 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, 21 million kilometres from the Earth, NASA’s EPOXI mission flew by Comet Hartley 2. In the process, it captured some of the most stunning close-up pictures of an active comet ever seen. Hartley 2 as seen by the EPOXI mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD Hartley 2 has been visible in the night sky for many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=3410&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spot Comet Hartley 2 as it passes Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comet Hartley 2 can be seen with binoculars from dark skies. Credit: WillGater.com Comet Hartley 2 is making its way through our neck of the planetary woods over the coming weeks, so now’s your chance to go out and see it. I took the above picture of the comet last weekend. The comet itself is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=3358&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Comet Lulin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comet C/2007 N3 (Lulin) is currently putting on a good show in the night sky, having brightened as it makes its journey through the inner Solar System. Earlier this month Lulin had been fairly low down during the wee-small hours, for us UK astronomers anyway, but as the days have gone by it has slowly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=1338&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comet Holmes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t tried to observe outbursting Comet Holmes (17P) yet, you really should! This comet is putting on an unusual show in the northern hemisphere&#8217;s night sky. Northern hemisphere observers will be able to spot it as a bright fuzzy star (now growing to almost half the apparent diameter of the Full Moon) in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=willgater.com&#038;blog=2757830&#038;post=38&#038;subd=willgater&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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