Last chance for 8,000 years to see Comet Lovejoy
It's the last chance to see Comet Lovejoy for 8,000 years as it passes Earth. You don't even need a telescope to see the glowing green comet. Professor Tim O'Brien is director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Tim said: "It sort of plunged in from way outside the other planets, way beyond Pluto and it's in the massive elliptical orbit that it's been travelling in for thousands and thousands of years. It's going back out again and it's 8,000 years before it comes back again."
This clip is originally from Breakfast on Saturday 10 January 2015.
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