Year of the Comet
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

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Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)

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February 2009
Your source for astronomy expertise — Astronomy magazine editors are here to help enrich media and blogger coverage of meteor showers, space missions, and night-sky events.
Asteroid Ceres finder chart Feb. 2009
A historically close approach by the solar system's biggest asteroid vies for attention with an unexpectedly bright comet among Leo the Lion's stars.
Published: February 19, 2009
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