Comet fever strikes

March 2013: All eyes will be on the western sky after sunset to see whether Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) puts on a great performance.

All eyes will be on the western sky after sunset to see whether Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) puts on a great performance. This visitor from the solar system’s depths promises to be the brightest comet in six years. By March’s second week, PANSTARRS should be a fine binocular object and could appear bright to naked eyes.
Astronomy magazine

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Mar. 4 Tweet~ Feb. 26 retro Mercury conjoined Mars as Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover experienced a computer glitch caused by corrupted files. [Curiosity went into a protective, minimal-activity "safe mode" last Thursday Feb. 28.]
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Recovering from Computer Glitch

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Quote of the Day: "I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb." ~Brian Eno

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The Eurozone Crisis 2013: Theory and Method in Mundane Astrology, By Nicholas Campion

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