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C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) Another comet, known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was discovered by ATLAS at the end of September and is expected to be visible in late October or early November, according to ...
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered by 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.
October 12, 2024 at 6:06 AM. ... The comet will be visible through October, first without and later with binoculars. ... It was last visible from Earth in 1986 and will return in 2061.
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is a long-period, sungrazing comet, which will reach perihelion on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU from the Sun. It could become the brightest comet of 2025, [4] possibly exceeding apparent magnitude of −3.5. The comet is visible in the southern hemisphere before and after perihelion.
The comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is seen near the western horizon over the Millers Ferry Bridge on Staten Island near the Delta town of Walnut Grove on Oct. 13, 2024. The comet can be ...
3:27 p.m. Oct. 11, 2024: A previous version of this article said that the comet was light-years away. The distance from Earth on Saturday will be about 44 million miles. The distance from Earth on ...
The object orbits the Sun but makes slow close approaches to the Earth–Moon system. Between 29 September (19:54 UTC) and 25 November 2024 (16:43 UTC) (a period of 1 month and 27 days) [4] it passed just outside Earth's Hill sphere (roughly 0.01 AU [1.5 million km; 0.93 million mi]) at a low relative velocity (in the range 0.002 km/s (4.5 mph) – 0.439 km/s [980 mph]) and will become ...
C/2024 L5 (ATLAS) is a comet that was discovered on 14 June 2024 as A117uUD by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), South Africa, Sutherland. It will reach perihelion on 10 March 2025 at 3.432 AU (513.4 million km ) from the Sun. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]