Once in a lifetime…. never to return! This was a winter wish come true. I finally caught up with the Christmas Comet Leonard!!!
This evening there it was… boldly, blazing across the Arizona southwestern sky… in the constellation Sagittarius…traveling at a mere 158,084 miles an hour!…Can you see it?… the white streak… low right below Venus and the Moon.
It was cruising by… right at Sunset… about 6:10 to 6:15 pm MT. Comet Leonard is a mass of space dust, rock and ice about a half-mile wide.
It was discovered by Greg Leonard at University of Arizona’s Mount Lemmon Observatory… only about a year ago. Leonard made it’s closest approach to Earth on December 12, coming within 21 million miles of us. It’s our last chance to see it…only visible thru early January!
Just imagine what it saw the last time it visited our Solar System…*70,000 years ago??? I blew well wishes and kisses to Leonard… to deliver to all my lost loved ones out there… especially Dean Blixt …because after it passes by the sun this time, it will never ever return to our place in space! Safe journey…Leonard…..wherever the universe takes you!
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