‘April Fool’s Day’ Comet Passes by Earth at 13 Million Miles
![In this image taken March 24, 2017, comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák is shown moving through a field of faint galaxies in the bowl of the Big Dipper. Image-Chris Schur ‘April Fool’s Day’ Comet Passes by Earth at 13 Million Miles](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/41P.jpg)
41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, officially named after its three discoverers, or known this year as the April Fool’s Day Comet, passed by our planet at a distance of approximately 13 million miles. 41P was first discovered by Horace Tuttle in 1858, it was determined then that 41P was a periodic comet, (a comet that orbits the sun) but, […]