“The comet of the century”
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“The comet of the century”
A new Comet is coming called C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS or in its translation Purple Mountain-ATLAS but some media are already calling it the comet of the century, its complex name is due to the fact that two groups of researchers discovered it, one in China at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing and the other in South Africa at the Smith Telescope in Sutherland.
The important thing is the question that we always ask ourselves in the case of Comets, will it be visible to the naked eye? According to astronomers, yes, it can be seen from all over the world, although it will be quite weak, but yes, it will look more intense than Comet 12p. Pons bruns called Comet Diablo, by the media and which had its closest approach to the earth on June 2, 2024 at 230 million km, that is many millions of kilometers.
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Astronomers hope to confirm the brightness of the comet in August and therefore the fact that it can be visible to the naked eye. The brightness of Los Cometas has a fairly large margin of error because comets are basically made up of ice of different elements and depending on The heat they receive from the Sun and the type of elements they are composed of can glow more or less or they can even disintegrate and explode in a cloud of vapor.
This is possible because that area is affected by the passage of nearby stars and is an area where the sun can end up capturing or exchanging comets with other stars; Third, we know that it is not very big although it is estimated that its nucleus has a respectable size of about 5 km in diameter, but for example Comet Diablo has a nucleus of 30 km in diameter, that is a big comet.
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