While having my coffee in the morning I like to check the email, horoscopes weather, etc. A lot of the time I will check out the news items from the Google news banner at the top of my gmail page. This one really caught my attention. http://dsc.discovery.com/Discovered by a meteorology undergraduate student at China's Sun Yat-Sen University, Comet Lulin is on a fast track toward Earth. Quanzhi Ye made the find in July 2007 while studying a picture taken by a Taiwanese astronomer working at the Lulin Observatory, for which the comet was named. It became visible this month.
The article said that comet Lulin will make its closest approach to us on February 24th. However, it said that unless you live somewhere without a whole lot of background light that you probably won't be able to see it with out the aid of binoculars or a telescope.
We, here in southern Oregon, probably won't be able be able to see it due to over cast skies. We had several very nice weeks there, at the end of January, but it seems to have gone back to winter on us. According to NOAA there's a storm warning in effect for tonight thru tomarrow. They are forecasting up to 15 inches of snow in the higher elevations, which actually means we'll probably see maybe 1 or 2 where we're at. I'm hoping that it will hold off until late tonight as Ms. Lea has to work a 12 hour day today and won't be home until 9:30 or 10 pm.
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