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Comets and asteroids

The brightest ones this month and next, from NASA/JPL's database of over a million small bodies.

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Object	From Earth	Brightness	Where to look

Brightness is a magnitude: lower is brighter, and about 6 is the faintest you can see by eye from a dark site. The view is from above the plane of the planets, with the direction of the spring equinox to the right. Scroll or pinch on the map to zoom.