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The Halloween comet, C/2024 S1, was a member of the Kreutz family of comets, a population of mostly tiny comet fragments originating from a single parent object that fell apart near the sun ...
This comet has been nicknamed the Halloween comet as it's expected to peak in visibility on Oct. 28 when it will be within about 190,000 miles of the sun's surface (scientifically known as ...
This image provided by NASA shows Comet Atlas, nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” approaching its closest to the sun, October 2024, as seen in this real-time image from NASA’s orbiting Solar ...
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.
Halloween Asteroid is a Radar Science Treat (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on YouTube) Halloween Asteroid 2015 TB145 Flyby Jerry Hilburn, 10/31/2015 12:12-12:24AM, Catfish Observatory, Teirra Del Sol, Canon 5D and an Orion ED 80 Refractor on an AVX Celestron Mount; 2015 TB145 at NeoDyS-2, Near Earth Objects—Dynamic Site
The Taurids are an annual meteor shower, associated with the comet Encke.The Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. The Southern Taurids originated from Comet Encke, while the Northern Taurids originated from the asteroid 2004 TG 10, possibly a large fragment of Encke due to its similar orbital parameters.
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.
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