Date: 26/12/2014 09:09:41
From: furious
ID: 651974
Subject: Comet Finley’s Casebook

That is all…

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Date: 26/12/2014 13:50:27
From: dv
ID: 652037
Subject: re: Comet Finley’s Casebook

Um

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Date: 27/12/2014 20:08:14
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 652361
Subject: re: Comet Finley’s Casebook

Wiki, “Comet Finlay is a periodic comet in the solar system…………”

Interesting, it’s not always a comet.

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Date: 28/12/2014 09:43:43
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 652450
Subject: re: Comet Finley’s Casebook

Finlay. Didn’t look particularly impressive on 16 Dec.

Images from 23 Dec at the time of closest approach to Mars don’t look particularly exciting either, though the tail is longer.
Don’t see any images on the web for closest approach to the Sun (27 Dec) yet.

Comet Lovejoy looks prettier.

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Date: 28/12/2014 22:06:04
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 652827
Subject: re: Comet Finley’s Casebook

> Finlay. Didn’t look particularly impressive

Unless you mean the OTHER comet Finlay. Observed on 7 Sep 1882 by W. H. Finlay. Now, that WAS impressive.

The recent comet 15P-Finlay has now hit it’s closest distance to the Sun, but is still getting closer to the Earth, so it may become more impressive when it’s three or four times closer to Earth than it is now.

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