I SAW COMET HOLMES TONIGHT!

Used a pair of binoculars. It was high up in the sky. Saw it despite city lights.


IS THAT A BIG DEAL?

If it were not for another comet...

My kids will have a good story to tell their kids and their kids to their kids and so on and so forth.

If it were not for Halley's Comet that last visited us in 1986, I would not have been able to date my ex-. And if we had not dated, my kids would not have been born.

So in 2062, when Halley's Comet returns, when my kids will be 72, 70, and 65, they can tell their kids to look up in the sky and thank God for Halley's Comet.

NOW BACK TO COMET HOLMES.

Amateur astronomers the world over have been stunned and amazed by the weirdest new object to appear in the sky in memory. And it's one of the brightest, too — it's easy to spot with your eyes alone if you know where to look.

On October 24th, Comet Holmes brightened unexpectedly and dramatically — by nearly a million times — virtually overnight.

For no apparent reason, the comet erupted from a very dim magnitude 17 to about magnitude 2½. Within a day its star-like nucleus had expanded into a perfectly round, bright little disk visible in binoculars and telescopes.

It looked like no comet ever seen.