I went to Wikipedia, and they have a nice animation, but it doesn’t show its entire path. And I can’t figure out what it is orbiting and why it was seen for so long. My sister remembers it being in the sky for weeks (1997), but I don’t remember ever seeing it. I know I was busy, but how could I possibly be THAT busy?
In: Planetary Science
It’s orbiting the sun.
The orbit is a very long and thin ellipse, with the sun very close (about one Earth-sun distance) to one tip. The other tip is about 354 times as far in the other direction, so it’s kind of hard to draw in a picture that also shows Earth’s orbit.
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