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| Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS to Approach Earth on October 12 |
| 2024-10-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A recently discovered comet, named C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, will approach Earth approximately on October 12. The comet will next appear in 80,000 years. CNN reported on the unique event. Residents of the Southern Hemisphere were able to observe Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in September and early October. "The comet won't streak across the sky like a meteor. It will just hang there and slowly change its position from night to night," said Bill Cook, head of NASA's meteorological environment division at NASA's Space Flight Center. The specialist also said that the celestial body can be clearly seen through binoculars, and “you will simply be shocked.” In a dark sky, the comet will look like a bright fireball with a long tail. According to NASA, the comet will make its first documented flyby of Earth at a distance of 70 million km. As reported by the Regnum news agency, residents of Kiev, Kharkov, Zhitomir and other cities in Central Ukraine noticed a falling meteor on the night of August 17. Asteroid 2024 PT5 will change its orbit under the influence of Earth's gravity, but it will not become a "second Moon", that is, a new satellite. This is the answer given by scientists to media reports about an asteroid allegedly approaching the planet, which will temporarily become a new satellite of the planet, rotating around it in orbit. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 ...I've read that book. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-10-12 08:19 |
| #1 Earth will get another moon this month — but not for long! [2024 PT5] It's a shame someone didn't think to land a sensor package to monitor the asteroid's travels. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-10-12 07:21 |