Twin Comets Headed for close approaches to Earth Record-Breaking Comet Flyby March 2016 \r
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March turns out to be the month of great celestial events in 2016.\r
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On March 21 the comet 252P/LINEAR 12 will make its closest approach yet, passing just 3.1 million miles (5.3 million km)\r
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Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) is set to pass by Earth at a distance of 2.1 million miles (3.5 million km).\r
This is a record-breaking approach to Earth for a comet!!!\r
Comets P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) passage will be the closest known comet flyby of the last 230 hundred years. Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey \r
on 2016 Jan 22.\r
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In 1983 comet IRAS-Araki-Alcock made the closest approach to Earth at 2.9 million miles (4.7 million km) of any comet in 200 years. \r
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Clips credit: ESO, ESA/HUBBLE & NASA\r
Images credit: Michael S. P. Kelley and Silvia Protopapa, Getty images.\r
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