Comet Hartley 2 from EpOXI October 23, 2010 Credit: NASA/JPL/UMD

Hey we’re only about a week away from the EPOXI/Hartley meet up. Everything is looking good.

The picture was taken by the EPOXI spacecraft from a range of 13 million km (8.7 million miles) with the Medium Resolution Instrument.

There was some talk of a debris trail and although some are saying no, there have been a couple of fireballs in Canada of the low and slow variety – yeah the good ones!  I don’t know for sure but you can check out that story and one of the very best images of the comet I’ve seen so far at the Science@NASA site.