Kometa Linear (WM1) yarchaet
6.12.2001 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Kometa, dostatochno yarkaya dlya nablyudeniya s pomosh'yu binoklya, proletaet po yuzhnomu nebu. Kometa C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) prodolzhaet yarchat', a ee hvost uvelichivaetsya s priblizheniem k Solncu, naibol'shee sblizhenie s kotorym ozhidaetsya v konce yanvarya 2002 g. Kometa LINEAR WM1 byla otkryta bolee goda nazad, kogda ona nahodilas' za orbitoi Yupitera i byla ochen' slaboi.