When at a distance, the entire Planet X complex of dust and tail and moons was taken to be Planet X, appearing as a Dot.
The brightness of this complex increased steadily during the Fall of 2002, as the complex came closer, a Tail Haze becoming evident.
The tail and moons Separated from the Planet X corpus, thus seeming to diminish the corpus relative to the rest of the complex.
The tail then was seen as distinct swirls, and when the swirls overlapped, as Dense Blotches.
As the complex came closer and spread, the Individual Moons became evident and separated from each other, thus seeming to diminish the tail density.
As the dozens of moons became visible objects, they appeared to rival the heavily Shrouded Planet X corpus itself.
