What was the last comet seen from earth?

Answer 1

This is written on September 6, 2012. At present, there are no comets visible with the naked eye, but there are a number of comets that are visible with even a modest telescope. The brightest is currently 96P/Machholz.

Answer 2

Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 and given the designation C/2006 P1, is a non-periodic comet discovered on August 7, 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught.[1] It was the brightest comet in over 40 years, and was easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere in January and February 2007.

Answer 3

In mid-September 2011, the following comets are brighter than magnitude 12

as seen from Earth:

-- P/2007 R5 SOHO

-- C/2010 X1 Elenin

-- 45P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova

-- C/2009 P1 Garradd

Answer 4

No comet has ever struck the United States.

Going back into pre-history, we believe that something big - a comet or small asteroid - may have struck what is now Canada, about 15,000 years ago, causing the "Younger Dryas" mini-ice age. This is about when all the woolly mammoths and saber-tooth tigers became extinct, along with all other large animals in North America.

Answer 5

Last night. Comet Lulin, the "Green Comet", is still visible in the pre-dawn skies with a pair of binoculars. It was never all THAT bright, but was visible with the naked eye in dark areas as recently as early February 2009.

Comets aren't all that rare. Amateur astronomers find a couple of dozen comets each year, of which a few are generally bright enough to see. What's rare is spectacularly bright comets; those only come around once per decade or so.

But if comets are of interest to you, check out spaceweather.com or read Sky & Telescope magazine, and keep informed of what's happening "up there".

Answer 6

Comets are seen all the time if you have a powerful enough telescope. But the last major event that was seen by the naked eye was Hale Bopp that was 1997 and could be seen for 569 days without aid.

Answer 7

Halley's Comet was last close enough to the sun to be seen by naked eyes, binoculars,

amateur telescopes etc. on Earth in 1986. It's due back around 2061.

Answer 8

whats was the last time that Haley's comet was visible

Answer 9

The last two comets discovered didn't have names, because they were observed only as they were falling into the Sun. This was during the first half of January, 2010.

Answer 10

Hale-Bopp, the most widely observed comet of the twentieth century.