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Space Weather News for Oct. 1, 2010
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APPROACHING COMET: Green comet 103P/Hartley 2 is approaching Earth for a close
encounter on Oct. 20th. At that time, the comet will be only 11 million miles
(0.12 AU) from our planet and should be dimly visible to the naked eye from dark
sky sites. It already looks great through backyard telescopes, as shown by
images featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com. NASA's Deep
Impact/EPOXI spacecraft is en route to this comet for close-up studies and a
daring flyby on Nov. 4th. 

UPSIDE-DOWN LIGHTNING OVER THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER:  An amateur photographer
has photographed rare lightning-like discharges called "gigantic jets" shooting
up from storm clouds near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.  Visit
http://spaceweather.com for a movie and more information about the phenomenon.