A new comet in Earth’s skies: Comet McNaught C/2009 R1 gets brighter in June of 2010 as it approaches the Sun!
A new crop picture at Stony Littleton Longbarrow on June 7, 2010 shows their usual symbols for “Earth and Moon” (see time2007f), along with past symbols for a “bright comet” (see time2007g or time2007h).
Have any comets become much brighter lately as seen from Earth? Yes, indeed! As reported by Spaceweather on the same day that crop picture appeared, Comet McNaught C/2009 R1 has become much brighter within the past few weeks as it moves toward the Sun (see www.spaceweather.com of June 7 or 8, 2010). It may become even brighter towards the end of June as it approaches perihelion (see remanzacco.blogspot.com or transientsky.wordpress.com):
The symbols used at Stony Littleton on June 7, 2010 to describe Comet McNaught C/2009 R1 seem very similar to other symbols used to describe Comet Shoemaker-Levy in 1994:
With some luck, we may be able to see that new comet, not only as it moves towards the Sun in May or June of 2010, but also as it moves away from the Sun in September or October of 2010:
Could this be the bright comet predicted last year at Ogbourne St. Andrew on July 29, Silbury Hill on August 3, Rollright Stone Circle on August 3 ("in 11 months") or Windmill Hill on August 6 ("in one lunar year")? If so, then it will need to get much brighter in the near future, so that many people on Earth will be able to see it with their naked eyes! Our early attempts to establish the identity of that comet seem to have been less than accurate (see "Symbols for cometary outburst appear in English crop pictures during the summer of 2009" on windmillhill2).
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