Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
the bright comet of October 2024 · C/2023 A3
9.45 AU from Earth
Found by China's Purple Mountain Observatory in January 2023, and on its own by the ATLAS survey in February. In mid-October 2024 Earth passed through the plane of its orbit, and dust spread along that orbit showed as a thin spike pointing toward the Sun: an anti-tail.
- shown as on 14 October 2024, two days after it passed Earth at 70 million km
- now 8.89 AU out, on a path that may leave the Solar System
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
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