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Com et C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a rare, once-in-a-lifetime comet visible once every 80,000 years, ... Some sightings have been reported in California, Virginia, and New Hampshire.
On Wednesday, the comet made its closest approach to our sun and on Saturday, October 12 at 11:39 a.m. it will be just 43,911,824 miles from Earth (its closest pass).
A rare comet, visible once every 80,000 years, graced the Texas sky last night. How's how to see it again this week and how it got its name.
The comet was reported to have a nuclear shadow, a dark lane in the tail, and was marginally visible with naked eye on that day. [10] On 7 January the comet was reported to be of first magnitude, with a tail about 20 arcminutes long. [5] The comet was photographed by cosmonaut Ivan Vagner onboard the International Space Station on 10 January. [11]
The rare, once in 80,000-year comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible over New Jersey through the rest of the month. Check out these sightings. The rare, once in 80,000-year comet Tsuchinshan ...
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.
The comet was spotted with the naked eye by Piotr Guzik on 8 September at an estimated magnitude of 4.7. [10] The comet tail was up to 7.5 degrees long when imaged with CCD. [10] On 12 September 2023 the comet passed 0.84 AU (126 million km; 78 million mi; 330 LD) from Earth but was only 15 degrees from the glare of the Sun. [11]
The comet is so rare that woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats were still roaming the Earth when it last swept by our planet. ... The astrophotographer has even made a video of Comet C/2022 E3 ...