#comet — Public Fediverse posts
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Descent to the Surface of a Comet
This frame from an animated sequence shows the Rosetta mission Philae lander descending toward comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko not in frame on Nov. 12, 2014. The images are from the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on the ESA Rosetta orbiter.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18877
Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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Descent to the Surface of a Comet
This frame from an animated sequence shows the Rosetta mission Philae lander descending toward comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko not in frame on Nov. 12, 2014. The images are from the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on the ESA Rosetta orbiter.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18877
Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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Comet 67P Seen by Kepler
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission concluded its study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30, 2016. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft observed the comet during the final month of the Rosetta mission, while the comet was not visible from Earth. This ...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21072
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/STScI/Open University/C. Snodgrass and SETI Institute/E. Ryan#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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Comet 67P Seen by Kepler
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission concluded its study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30, 2016. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft observed the comet during the final month of the Rosetta mission, while the comet was not visible from Earth. This ...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA21072
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/STScI/Open University/C. Snodgrass and SETI Institute/E. Ryan#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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Rosetta Comet In Action Animation
A short-lived outburst from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on July 29, 2015. The image at left was taken at 13:06 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (6:06 a.m. PDT), and does not show any visible signs of the jet. It is very strong in the middle image captured at 13:24 GMT (6:24 a.m. PD...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19867
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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Rosetta Comet In Action Animation
A short-lived outburst from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was captured by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on July 29, 2015. The image at left was taken at 13:06 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (6:06 a.m. PDT), and does not show any visible signs of the jet. It is very strong in the middle image captured at 13:24 GMT (6:24 a.m. PD...
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19867
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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Philae Lander Setting on Comet, with Cliff-Image Inset
This graphic depicts the position of the Philae lander of the European Space Agency Rosetta mission, and a nearby cliff photographed by the lander, in the context of topographic modeling of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko nucleus.
More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA19097
Credit: Copyright: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CNES/FD/CIVA#comet #rosetta #astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #astrophysics
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2026-05-24 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-23)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.72 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 69 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 71 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.13 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 119,947,173.97 km (-1,501,258.64 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.80 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 6 min 40.11 s (-5.01 s) -
2026-05-24 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-23)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.48 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 138 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.07 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,167,407.59 km (-79,298.88 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 11.26 s (-0.26 s) -
2026-05-24 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-23)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 43.85 km/s (-0.41 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 12.04 (+0.15)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small telescope | Urban sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 190,754,896.86 km (+4,858,820.29 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.28 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 10 min 36.31 s (+16.21 s) -
Last Light of Orbit 59
Tonight
#59thBirthday #agingWithGrace #Beloved #birthdayPoem #birthdayReflection #celestialImagery #comet #cosmicPilgrimage #Creativity #Faith #fiftyNinthOrbit #GodSPresence #Grace #Gratitude #Healing #holyTroubleOfBeingAlive #Hope #journeyAroundTheSun #KeithLyndaker #longingForHealth #newBeginnings #orbitOfGrace #PeaceGrooves #sixtiethOrbit #SpiritualReflection #stillBecoming #towardTheLight #tripAroundTheSun
I am riding the dark rim of a circle,
carried by a world
that has never once stopped turning
beneath my restless feet.
Somewhere behind me,
the sun still touches the first hour
of the day I was born—
that bright door through which I came,
crying, breathing,
astonished into being.
And now,
fifty-nine journeys later,
I approach that door again
from the other side of time.
Not as an infant,
not innocent of pain,
not untouched by sorrow,
but bearing the strange cargo
of a life still becoming:
songs not yet fully sung,
stories rising like constellations
out of the black field of the mind,
wood shavings, prayers,
pulpit words and private wounds,
the names of those I love
burned warm inside me
like lights in the windows
of a house at night.
This year has not carried me gently.
My body has spoken
in the difficult language of weakness;
I have learned again
how fiercely the spirit longs
for flesh that will follow it—
hands steady enough to make,
lungs deep enough to sing,
strength enough to stand
and speak of hope
without needing first
to be rescued by it.
And yet—
even weary,
I have felt new worlds
pressing against the walls of me.
I have heard characters knocking.
I have seen cities rise from mist.
I have watched peace take strange forms—
a game, a song,
a tale whispered beside the ruins,
a tiny flame refusing
the vast machinery of darkness.
Perhaps this is what grace is:
not that the journey leaves us unwounded,
but that the wounded still dream;
not that the night is empty of fear,
but that even now
there are stars bright enough
to navigate by.
Tonight
I am almost at the crossing.
The earth is bearing me
through the final miles
of my fifty-ninth voyage around the fire,
and I can feel tomorrow
waiting just beyond the curve—
not as a promise that all will be easy,
not as a guarantee of healing,
but as an opening
in the wilderness of time.
Behind me:
every journey I somehow survived.
Before me:
the sixtieth flight,
wide and uncharted,
shimmering with things
that have not yet found their names.
And above me—
or within me—
or nearer than either—
the One who has traveled every mile,
who was present at my first breath
and remains
in this midnight breathing,
this fragile body,
this fierce desire
to keep creating,
keep loving,
keep turning toward the light.
So let the last hours come.
Let the old circle close
like a well-worn book
whose pages are stained
with tears and fingerprints
and sudden bursts of color.
Let me stand for a moment
on this spinning sphere,
under the patient stars,
and say:
I was here.
I am still here.
I have been carried farther
than I knew how to go.
And when morning arrives,
when the invisible line is crossed,
I will lift my face
toward the ancient sun
and begin again—
older,
gentler,
still unfinished,
still beloved,
still burning
with the holy ache
of being alive. -
2026-05-20 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-19)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.50 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 73 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 75 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.26 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 126,049,953.49 km (-1,566,193.60 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.84 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 0.47 s (-5.22 s) -
2026-05-20 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-19)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.73 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 142 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.07 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,456,223.81 km (-61,108.79 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 12.22 s (-0.20 s) -
2026-05-20 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-19)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 45.57 km/s (-0.46 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.44 (+0.16)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 171,068,924.13 km (+5,017,935.65 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.14 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 30.64 s (+16.74 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.44 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 74 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 76 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.29 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 127,616,147.09 km (-1,582,217.83 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.85 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 5.69 s (-5.28 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.79 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 143 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.06 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,517,332.59 km (-56,998.97 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 12.43 s (-0.19 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.03 km/s (-0.47 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.28 (+0.16)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 166,050,988.48 km (+5,050,453.48 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.11 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 13.90 s (+16.85 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.03 km/s (-0.47 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.28 (+0.16)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 166,050,988.48 km (+5,050,453.48 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.11 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 13.90 s (+16.85 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.03 km/s (-0.47 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.28 (+0.16)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 166,050,988.48 km (+5,050,453.48 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.11 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 13.90 s (+16.85 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.03 km/s (-0.47 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.28 (+0.16)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 166,050,988.48 km (+5,050,453.48 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.11 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 13.90 s (+16.85 s) -
2026-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-18)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.03 km/s (-0.47 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.28 (+0.16)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 166,050,988.48 km (+5,050,453.48 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.11 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 9 min 13.90 s (+16.85 s) -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/491215/ Interstellar Comet Gave Scientists Their First Taste of Alien Water #3IATLAS #comet #Éire #IE #InterstellarComet #Ireland #Science
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🎵 It's student presentation time 🎵 #JAE-Intro day at @[email protected]. Students are presenting the work they've been doing in their JAE internship and PhD projects. My student, Alba, is presenting her project on the analysis of historic #comet ☄️ non-gravitational forces and orbits
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2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.38 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 75 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 77 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.33 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 129,198,364.92 km (-1,598,125.91 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.86 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 10.97 s (-5.33 s) -
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.85 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 144 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.05 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,574,331.56 km (-53,062.47 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 12.62 s (-0.18 s) -
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.50 km/s (-0.48 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.12 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,000,535.01 km (+5,078,797.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.06 s (+16.94 s) -
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.50 km/s (-0.48 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.12 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,000,535.01 km (+5,078,797.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.06 s (+16.94 s) -
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.50 km/s (-0.48 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.12 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,000,535.01 km (+5,078,797.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.06 s (+16.94 s) -
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.50 km/s (-0.48 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.12 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,000,535.01 km (+5,078,797.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.06 s (+16.94 s) -
2026-05-18 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-17)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.50 km/s (-0.48 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 11.12 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 161,000,535.01 km (+5,078,797.61 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.08 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 57.06 s (+16.94 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️10P/TEMPEL 2
- Barycentric speed: 28.33 km/s (+0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 76 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 78 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.36 (-0.03)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 130,796,490.83 km (-1,613,903.06 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.87 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 7 min 16.30 s (-5.38 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 29.91 km/s (-0.06 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 145 days
- Brightness (Mag): 15.03 (+0.01)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 291,627,394.03 km (-49,308.18 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.95 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 12.79 s (-0.16 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.98 km/s (-0.49 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 10.95 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 155,921,737.39 km (+5,102,106.70 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.04 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 40.11 s (+17.02 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.98 km/s (-0.49 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 10.95 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 155,921,737.39 km (+5,102,106.70 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.04 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 40.11 s (+17.02 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.98 km/s (-0.49 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 10.95 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 155,921,737.39 km (+5,102,106.70 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.04 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 40.11 s (+17.02 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.98 km/s (-0.49 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 10.95 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 155,921,737.39 km (+5,102,106.70 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.04 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 40.11 s (+17.02 s) -
2026-05-17 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-16)
☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 46.98 km/s (-0.49 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 10.95 (+0.17)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Binoculars | Dark sky🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 155,921,737.39 km (+5,102,106.70 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.04 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 8 min 40.11 s (+17.02 s) -
https://www.ufofeed.com/251206/gadsden-state-celebrates-largest-comet-apprenticeship-signing-class-to-date/ Gadsden State Celebrates Largest CoMeT Apprenticeship Signing Class to Date #Comet #Comets
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https://www.ufofeed.com/251206/gadsden-state-celebrates-largest-comet-apprenticeship-signing-class-to-date/ Gadsden State Celebrates Largest CoMeT Apprenticeship Signing Class to Date #Comet #Comets
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https://www.ufofeed.com/251170/snapshots-twisted-teens-w-gerf-and-g2k-comet-ping-pong-5-6-26/ Snapshots: Twisted Teens w/ Gerf and g2k @ Comet Ping Pong — 5/6/26 #Comet #Comets
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https://www.ufofeed.com/251170/snapshots-twisted-teens-w-gerf-and-g2k-comet-ping-pong-5-6-26/ Snapshots: Twisted Teens w/ Gerf and g2k @ Comet Ping Pong — 5/6/26 #Comet #Comets
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https://www.ufofeed.com/251136/lady-comets-meteors-finish-perfect-in-league-play-scranton-times-tribune/ Lady Comets, Meteors finish perfect in league play – Scranton Times-Tribune #Comet #Comets
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https://www.ufofeed.com/251136/lady-comets-meteors-finish-perfect-in-league-play-scranton-times-tribune/ Lady Comets, Meteors finish perfect in league play – Scranton Times-Tribune #Comet #Comets
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https://www.ufofeed.com/251100/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-is-flying-to-a-metal-asteroid-so-why-did-it-just-visit-mars/ NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is flying to a metal asteroid. So, why did it just visit Mars? #Comet #Comets
