1862 was the year that Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle discovered the comet, and they observed this filament break away from the comet. So hats off to Swift and Tuttle, and to Simons, Pacinotti, Toussaint, Schjellerup and Tebbut, who all independantly discovered the comet that year. This is their firework show, though it won't be visible in America. It should be magnificent in Eastern Asia.
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DrGoon
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