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The jury is working on whether stargazers will be able to get a glimpse of the comet this Thursday night. Comet ISON is expected to reach the sun on Thursday and will pass by Earth at a distance less than one solar diameter. After reaching the sun, it is expected to heat up to about 5000 degrees and if it survives the collision, it will move further at a speed of almost 828000 miles per hour.
On Monday morning NASA observers found the comet ISON weaker and it looked like it will die before reaching the sun but on Tuesday, the comet looked healthy again, raising hopes of a glimpse on Thanksgiving. ‘We have never seen a comet like this,’ said Karl Battams, Naval Research Laboratory astrophysicist, during a NASA news conference on Tuesday. ‘It has been behaving strangely.’
The name ISON for the comet is derived from the International Scientific Optical Network used by two astronomers in September last year. The official name of the comet is C/2012 S1, which indicates the time when it was first discovered. ‘Comets evolve from the time they start brightening until they go all the way around the sun, and go back out,’ said Green, director of NASA’s planetary science division. ‘By having and leveraging these assets, it really gives us that view — that unique view — that we couldn’t get otherwise.’ The NASA cameras on every spacecraft are turned towards the comet following its tail and hoping it doesn’t get blasted on its way to the sun by a coronal mass ejection.
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