Saturday, January 16, 2016

Tomorrow will be visible comet “Catalina” – The Imparcial.com

From the Oort cloud undertaken on a path for millions of year ± os, Sunday podrá its lowest point displayed in near-Earth comet C / 2013 US10, also known as â € © n œCatalinaâ €, Ávila mencionó Fernando Castro.

The astronomy professor at the Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mà © Mexico (UNAM) in Ensenada precisó that verá © s after 02:00 hours, in direction towards the North, including the Big Dipper and the North Star (North Star), at a distance of 110 million kilometers from the Earth.

He explained that â € œCatalinaâ € comes from a region outside the solar system called the Oort cloud, which is an area where quedó â € œescombroâ € (hundreds of millions of these objects) of the formation of the solar system; your interaction with any of these planets could have originated his career

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â € œIn the Oort cloud hundreds of millions of these objects, then some interaction between them as the passage of a nearby star à © l made to change its direction and come to € acáâ, indicó.

This comet podrá still be visible for two more weeks, aseguró, but will go after © s is moving away from the Earth to the Sun and acercándose will be lost sight of, so this weekend will be the time to idóneo it can be seen with binoculars and a telescope small ± o.

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