What, uh, what about as of the last week or so? When, when is it that it, uh, began to become visible from the other side of the sun?

Yeah, it, it went, um, to the closest approach to the sun, which is still somewhere between the distance of Earth and Mars, uh, around October 29th, and the Earth happened to be ill-positioned to, to observe it at that time.

Uh, but it is starting to be seen now, uh, by some amateur astronomers, and it was seen, I think, just two days after perihelion by, uh, satellites, uh, like the PUNCH satellite designed to look at objects, uh, or, you know, close into the sun.

So with that, we can, um, observe, uh, these, these jets that have developed, as, as all comets do when they heat up.

The gases, uh, are formed from ice sublimating, ice turning from solid into gas, and, and, uh, it pokes through weak parts of, of a comet's crust, and it, it shoots these jets out, uh, like all comets do.

It's been doing that.

So that's been exciting to observe.

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But I guess like, tell us like, how, how did this happen? This is so incredible.

Yeah.

Uh, I had the idea for this, uh, about a year ago.

Uh, I remember I was about to go see, uh, The concert on August 31st in Phoenix last summer, and I bought the VIP package, so I was going to get a chance to meet Al himself.

And I remember thinking, I want something to talk to him about in the brief moments I have with him.

And it was around that time that I read about the passing of Tom Lehrer.

And of course, Tom Lehrer sang The Elements and Lovachevsky and Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and a lot of famous comedic songs.

Okay.