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https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...p&cvid=09112f2b8eb649e0e89a0c5cecf5d6c3&ei=17
It is travelling through space at 240,000 miles per hour, is already visible to the naked eye, and will be at its closest—78 million miles—on Tuesday 12th, according to Professor Brad Gibson, director of the E A Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull.Comet Nishimura was discovered only in August but will be closest to Earth in a week’s time – just before dawn on Tuesday September 12.
Prof Gibson said Nishimura can currently be seen in the hour after sunset and the hour before dawn by looking east-north-east, towards the crescent moon and Venus.
i'm gonna take a look and pray clouds aren't in the wayHe said: “The comet takes 500 years to orbit the solar system, Earth takes one year, and the outer planets can take many decades.