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A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, makes its closest approach of Earth on Saturday. The comet’s next appearance may be in 80,000 years.
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 Oort Cloud comet called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will make its first close pass by Earth in mid-October and won’t be back for another 80,000 years Image credits: Gerald Rhemann Image ...
On 6 August 2014, the spacecraft reached the comet and performed a series of manoeuvers to eventually orbit the comet at distances of 30 to 10 kilometres (19 to 6 mi). [14] On 12 November, its lander module Philae performed the first successful landing on a comet, [15] though its battery power ran out two days later. [16]
A time-lapse of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) captured on 10 May 2024. By January 2024, the comet had brightened to an apparent magnitude of 13.6 and according to Bob King, author in Sky & Telescope magazine, was visible through 15-inch telescopes at ×142 magnification. [10] The comet was then moving through the constellations of Libra ...
C/2023 H2 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey in images obtained on 23 April 2023. [1] It passed perihelion on 29 October 2023 and on 10 November 2023 approached Earth to a distance of 0.19 AU (28 million km) brightening to an apparent magnitude of 6.
Comet C/2023 A3 making closest pass to Earth 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 ...
C/2023 V5 (Leonard) was discovered on 6 November 2023 by the Catalina Sky Survey. It came to perihelion on 13 December 2023 at 0.849 AU (127.0 million km ), from the Sun. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is probably a Liller family comet , together with C/1988 A1 (Liller) , C/1996 Q1 (Tabur) , C/2015 F3 (SWAN) , and C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS) .