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Comet: Siding Spring

I was inspired to take this comet image after reading this article about this particular comet blowing up, just a week before I took my image:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260049/Exploding-comet.html?ITO=1490

In reviewing my data, I do not think I see the "chunk" that was observed coming off the comet on March 24, 2010.

Here is my image:

Siding Spring on 3/29/10

Compared to the image taken by Nick Howes obseved the small chunk coming off of the comet on March 24, 2010 (He took the image below):

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago.

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