NASA has posted an informative description of the encounter and the comet's discovery earlier this month by Tom Lovejoy, an amateur astronomer in Australia. There's lots more from the space agency on the comet here:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-lovejoy.html
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