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Danbury, CT

   a restaurant – indoors

     Sunday  2013-12-01

 

 

Recent Comets, These Ones

 

 

  The energetic pull of our local star

        has nudged and pulls it from Oort Cloud

            Comet ISON (C/2012) later named

                   starting from 25000 AUs

                   journeyed  5.5 million years to neighbor planets

                           Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury

                   and looped ever so close around the sun

                            – November 28th ,

                       a sungrazer at 0.012 AU, fatally too close.

 

  Another comet is still  incoming towards our neighborhood,

        Comet LoveJoy (C/2013) is still bright

            as it travels to our local star

               with a broad berth at 0.812 AU away from our sun,

                   a loop around the sun on December 25th

          It’s bright image expected to shine

                 Dec / Jan / Feb /  March

                  and  centuries to come

                     ALL on its grand orbit to return.

 

 

                       David of Danbury