The BIGGEST COMET in decades
This new comet will outshine all the brightest stars in the night sky. This comet was first found in 2023 by Atlas Robotic Early Warning System.
This system is designed to detect NEOs - Near Earth Objects and provide us with an early warning system.
Later we discovered that the Chinese Observatory Tsuchinshan took pictures of this comet. So they named
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with a designation C/2023 A3. That means it is a non-periodic 3rd Comet found in 2023 in the first half of January.
This comet may visit our Earth every 80,000 years based on initial observations.
It is fast approaching our Earth despite being quite far from us. At this moment, it is 6.3 astronomical units from the Sun. An astronomical unit means the distance from Sun to Earth 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles. At this time, light takes 52 minutes and 27.0362 seconds to reach us from the Comet.
On Sunday, October 13th, 2024, it reaches the closest point to the Earth, 0.47 Astronomical units or 44,258,636 miles from the Earth.
The current Magnitude of this comet is 17.71 - only highly powerful telescopes can see it. It is approaching at a speed of 80.74 kilometers per second towards Earth. By the time it reaches October 2024, it will become as bright as 0.30 magnitude, which might outshine any shining star in the night sky.
Comets are unpredictable. We had our fair share of excitements and disappointments from the recent comets. I hope this comet, by October 2024, will outshine the morning sky and give us some dazzling views.
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