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C/2024 L5 (ATLAS) is a comet that was discovered on 14 June 2024 as A117uUD by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), South Africa, Sutherland.It will reach perihelion on 10 March 2025 at 3.432 AU (513.4 million km) from the Sun. [4] [5]
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a partially disintegrated non-periodic comet, which reached perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun. Dubbed the Great Comet of 2025 , it is currently the brightest comet of 2025, [ 6 ] with an apparent magnitude reaching −3.8 on the day of its perihelion. [ 5 ]
Previous perihelion passages were in 1986, 2061, and 2134. 2221 May 27 Near-Earth asteroid (285263) 1998 QE 2 will pass Earth at a distance of 0.038 AU (5.7 million km; 3.5 million mi). [61] 2221 Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn: 2223 December 2 At 12:39 UTC, Mars will occult Jupiter, this comes after a gap of 836 Earth years. [31] [42] 2227
On Jan. 13, the comet is expected to reach perihelion (its closest point to the Sun). At this time, the comet will come within approximately 8.3 million miles of the Sun. The same day, it's also ...
Even so, quite a few comets were lost because their orbits are also affected by non-gravitational effects such as the release of gas and other material that forms the comet's coma and tail. Unlike a long-period comet , the next perihelion passage of a numbered periodic comet can be predicted with a high degree of accuracy.
At perihelion, Earth is roughly 91.4 million miles away from the sun. On average, the planet is separated from the sun by a distance of approximately 93 million miles.
“Wicked 2” has changed its release date, bumping up five days to open Nov. 21, 2025. The sequel was previously slated for Nov. 26, 2025, which would have put it up against Disney’s ...
The Parker Solar Probe mission design uses repeated gravity assists at Venus to incrementally decrease its orbital perihelion to achieve a final altitude (above the surface) of approximately 8.5 solar radii, or about 6 × 10 ^ 6 km (3.7 × 10 ^ 6 mi; 0.040 au). [38]