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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 before the day of ghosts and ghouls. ‘Halloween comet’ breaks up close to the sun ...
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.
Meanwhile, the “Halloween comet” disintegrated this week during its closest approach of the sun, and a solar mission captured footage of the comet’s final moments before it evaporated.
Later comets, observed in the 17th century or later, either did not have enough observations, sometimes as few as one or two, or the comet disintegrated or moved out of a favorable location in the sky before it was possible to make more observations of it.
In comet nomenclature, the letter before the "/" is either "C" (a non-periodic comet), "P" (a periodic comet), "D" (a comet which has been lost or has disintegrated), "X" (a comet for which no reliable orbit could be calculated — usually historical comets), or "A" for an object that was mistakenly identified as a comet, but is a minor planet.
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 ...