Comet Leonard enters the evening and how asteroids are named

Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 6 a.m.

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Fast-moving Comet Leonard becomes an evening object this week.

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Venus slows its march eastward to turn around.

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The Geminid meteor shower peaks.

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If you ever discover an asteroid, you'll get to name it after yourself, someone else, a place, or a thing. But it's not a case of anything goes. And it's not a fast process.

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