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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 ]
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Comet ISON came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 28 November 2013 at a distance of 0.0124 AU (1,860,000 km; 1,150,000 mi) from the center point of the Sun. [3] Accounting for the solar radius of 695,500 km (432,200 mi), Comet ISON passed approximately 1,165,000 km (724,000 mi) above the Sun's surface. [29]
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It crossed the celestial equator on 9 January 2015, becoming better seen from the Northern Hemisphere. [13] The comet came to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 30 January 2015, at a distance of 1.29 AU (193,000,000 km; 120,000,000 mi) from the Sun. [ 3 ] At perihelion, its water production rate exceeded 20 metric tons per second.
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At perihelion Comet Machholz passes the Sun at 122 kilometers per second (440,000 kilometers per hour). [3] It comes closer to the Sun than any numbered comet less than 321P/SOHO. [7] Between 1897 and 2102 perihelion gradually drops from 0.17 AU (25 million km) to 0.09 AU (13 million km). [14] 2081 will be the first perihelion below 0.1 AU. [14]
C/2021 A1 (Leonard) was a long period comet [5] that was discovered by G. J. Leonard at the Mount Lemmon Observatory on 3 January 2021 (a year before perihelion) when the comet was 5 AU (750 million km) from the Sun. [1] It had a retrograde orbit. The nucleus was about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) across.