Comet NEOWISE
the bright comet of July 2020 · C/2020 F3
20 AU from Earth
Found by NASA's NEOWISE space telescope on 27 March 2020, it became a naked-eye comet with a long curved dust tail in July 2020. Its nucleus is about 5 km across.
- shown as on 3 July 2020, at its closest to the Sun (0.29 AU)
- it passed Earth at 103 million km on 23 July · now 18.9 AU out
- back in about 6,800 years
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
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