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Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), nicknamed the "Halloween comet," disintegrated on Monday during its closest approach of the sun. An ESA and NASA project captured the comet's final moments.
A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated ... nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” approaching its closest to the sun, October 2024 ...
A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft captured the moment when the comet Atlas broke into chunks this week as it passed close to the sun.
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered from the ATLAS–HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October 2024, at a distance of about 0.008 AU (1.2 million km; 0.74 million mi) from the barycenter of the Solar System, [1] and disintegrated.
Chances of spotting the Halloween comet on Oct. 31 are slim, unfortunately, due to the already-faint appearance of the space object. ... The comet "has almost certainly disintegrated," according ...
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 ]
This category is for comets that disintegrated or otherwise ceased to exist. ... Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9; C/1979 Q1 (Solwind) C/2012 E2 (SWAN) C/2020 F8 (SWAN) U.
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