LUWD #0016 – Comet ATLAS, Mizar, Alcor, Youngest Moon, and Loma Prieta

April 21, 2020 00:28:00
LUWD #0016 – Comet ATLAS, Mizar, Alcor, Youngest Moon, and Loma Prieta
Looking Up with Don
LUWD #0016 – Comet ATLAS, Mizar, Alcor, Youngest Moon, and Loma Prieta

Apr 21 2020 | 00:28:00

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Show Notes

Unpredictable, inexplicable, once busted up, now busting out, gas and dust tail, small scale detail, written off as dead

Apparently it was misread

See Comet ATLAS, it is a splendid actress

What will it do next week, take a sneak peek

Will it be bright or bleak

DON MACHHOLZ

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