Three Comets

I posted earlier about Comet Elenin and it's approach in late September/early October. But there are two other comets that will be passing though around the same time.

Comet Honda is passing through now and will be closest to Earth (0.0603 AU, 5.6 million miles) on August 15.

Comet Levy is still out beyond Mars but will get as close as 0.0484 AU (4.5 million miles) on January 7, 2012.

I'm hopeful that all three of these comets will be bright enough to get a good look at as I can't recall an instance where there were three close passes within a six month time frame.