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The 'missing comets' mystery

The beginning of winter this year will see two rather distant comets, discovered as very faint objects in earlier years, coming within visual range of small telescopes.

The first of these to have been discovered is which was found as long ago as November 2, 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Mountain as an object of magnitude 19. It will pass perihelion on March 8 at a distance of 2.23 AU from the Sun, and will become visible from southern latitudes as it emerges from the

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