A Big Green Comet

I read this morning that there's a big green comet supposed to come blasting through the sky tonight. It's the size of Jupiter, which if memory serves, is an enormous planet the size of several thousand earths.

Good grief, I think, like I always think when gigantic news like this comes along ... Why didn't they tell us before? Did they just wake up today and discover it? It sounds like something worth telling us a little more in advance. Not that there's anything we could do about it, say, if it veered off course; I don't think that's in the works. But it'd be worth hearing about before the day it happens!

Anything worth doing, anything worth seeing is worth having some advance notice. We have the countdown days to everything, Christmas, elections, vacation, shuttle launches. But when it comes to eclipses, comets, all this stuff that is measured in light years, we wake up, then they tell us, that later today, this is happening.