Comet Elenin
Posted by JAC on 2/7/2011, 9:27 am
Discovered in December.  Official name:  C-2010 X1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2010_X1








Trajectory has been refined up until now.

http://astronomy.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=58381&p=3&topicID=39877911


Currently looks like closest approach will be 0.24 AU in October and earth will be going thru its tail in November.

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1

http://solarwatch.wordpress.com/








Some speculation it could get as close as 0.15 AU.

http://spaceobs.org/en/tag/c2010-x1-elenin/
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