A ‘Tail’ of Two Comets
![Comet 252P/LINEAR will safely fly past Earth on March 21, 2016, at a range of about 3.3 million miles (5.2 million kilometers). The following day, comet P/2016 BA14 will safely fly by our planet at a distance of about 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A ‘Tail’ of Two Comets](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/image18-03-2016-13.34.52.jpg)
Two comets that will safely fly past Earth later this month may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits. They may be twins of a sort. Comet P/2016 BA14 was discovered on Jan. 22, 2016, by the University of Hawaii’s PanSTARRS telescope on Haleakala, on the island of Maui. It was initially thought […]