Rare comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visible until Oct 20
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Updated: 2024-10-13 08:50
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Recently, some shutterbugs captured the comet - C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) - at Caiyun town in Lufeng city, Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province. This comet, which visits Earth once every 61,751 years, is now in the best observation period from Oct 12 to 20.
The comet reached perihelion, its closest point to the sun in its orbital path around the parent star, on Sept 27, and reached perigee, its closest approach to Earth (within nearly 71 million kilometers from Earth) , on Oct 12.
