#comet maui

This view of the Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was captured Monday night from atop Haleakalā on Maui by resident Jeanna Thacker. Residents throughout the state have been sending in imagery of the comet as it makes its appearance over island skies.

*UPDATE: 6:50 a.m. 8/31/15: According to information released by the DoD’s Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg AFB in CA, the object was likely the Cosmos 1315 payload launched in 1981. Gene Stansbery, Program Manager for NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office confirmed the report with Maui Now this morning.