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发帖数: 344 | 1 Comet Kudo-Fujikawa: Days in the Sun
Credit: SOHO - LASCO Consortium, ESA, NASA
Explanation: Cruising through the inner Solar System, new Comet Kudo-Fujikawa
reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, yesterday, January
29. Passing within 28.4 million kilometers of the Sun, this comet came much
closer than innermost planet Mercury basking only 57.9 million kilometers
from our parent star. So close to the Sun, comet Kudo-Fujikawa was extremely
bright but impossible for earthbound observ |
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