The comet Linar will be visible
Comet Linar, also known as C/2001 A2 is on its way to a close encounter with Earth on Saturday, June 30, and will therefore be visible to the naked eye.
Astronomers have watched the comet quite intensively during its journey through the inner solar system, and its behavior has so far been unusual and unpredictable. In May of this year, the European Southern Observatory announced that the comet's nucleus had split into three parts
It was familiar: a previous Linar comet, whose full name is C/1999 S4, broke into two pieces in the past year. The two comets have identical names because they were discovered by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research project, or LINEAR for short.
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At the end of the week, the new comet will reach a distance of 23 million miles from Earth, and viewers in North America will be able to see it at a brightness of minus 4, about 30 degrees above the eastern horizon, shortly before sunrise.
The appearance will not be as spectacular as the one given by Comet Hale-Bop in 1997. In fact, an observatory in California reported: "This should be the dullest comet at this brightness that we have seen in our history. But it's still worth getting up early for him."
^^Expect a spectacular meteor shower on July 2^^
The BOOTID meteor shower produced on July 2nd. A shower of falling stars in the night sky. This meter includes remnants from comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke which orbits the Sun once every 6.37 years. A comet has an elliptical orbit that carries it from a point close to Earth's orbit to beyond Jupiter's orbit.
Comet Ponce Wickens was last seen in the inner solar system in 1996, and will return in 2002. The comet's tail is evidently clumpy
When our planet passes through a dense point in this debris stream, we see a meteor shower. In 1998, the Shia reached 100 meteors per hour that could be seen for 7 hours.
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Observation tips:
* Go out into the open space - find a place as far as possible from the city lights
* Stay late, after midnight, when the Earth is turned towards the Chain of Remnant
* Equip yourself with lounge chairs, let your eyes get used to the darkness.
* Keep your eyes open, even though the meteors come from one point, they can be seen anywhere in the sky.
* Look west.
* The June Butid meteors will appear as slow-moving lights striking away from a radian point in the constellation BOOTES/]] just to the left of the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper.
Those who miss the meteors will be able to take solace in Mars, which has been at its closest point to Earth since 1988. There are several more expected meteor showers, the Southern Aquarids, Alpha Capricorn, which also have a peak at the end of July, as well as the permanent and stable shower - the Perseids of mid-August.
