Over the next three nights, skywatchers can expect their best views yet of Comet Lulin, an odd, greenish backward-flying comet that's "zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges of the solar system." The Chicago Tribune reports that Comet Lulin makes its closest approach to Earth — some 38 million miles away — on Tuesday, Feb. 24.
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satellite designed to study carbon emissions
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but the clamshell-like housing that protects the satellite during its rise through the atmosphere failed to open and break away from the rocket’s final stage. Burdened with added weight, the engine couldn’t deliver enough push to loft the satellite to orbit. It fell back to Earth over the Southern Ocean.
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