Comet Panstarrs - 2013 Mar 13

Comet Panstarrs (C/2011 L4) was discovered in June 2011 by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PannSTARRS) in Hawaii.

The comet passed closest to Earth on March 05, 2013 (distance of 1.09 astronomical units) and it reached perihelion (closest point to the Sun) 5 days later on March 10, 2013. It was during this period that Panstarrs was at its brightest.

I wrote a number of blogs about Comet Panstarrs as it appeared in the evening skies of March 2013:

For more information, see the Wikipedia entry about the comet.

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