Last Chance For 80,000 Years To See Comet As It Gets Closest To Earth

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It's a large, long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere of millions of comets wrapped around the solar system.

Qicheng Zhang, an astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, who has been monitoring the comet, in an email.

"It should stay fairly prominent over the next few days as the fading comet is balanced out by the darker sky as it moves away from the sun until about Oct.19 or 20".

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