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Comet To Make Closest Flyby Today
A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on TODAY.
Wed Feb 01 2023Written by Zac Aubert
A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on TODAY.
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Astronomers say the object's journey toward us took around 50,000 years. The object originates in the Oort cloud, a collection of icy bodies at the edge of the Solar System.
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The comet will make its closest approach to Earth at around 41 million km (26 million miles)
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