2024-07-25 07:05:14
The most anticipated comet by astronomers, enthusiasts and celestial enthusiasts, is currently passing between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. at a crazy speed of 290,664 km / h, after leaving the Oort Cloud. Scientists predict that Tsuchinshan – Atlas, an ice-and-rock cluster with a core between 6 and 15 km in diameter, it will reach its perihelion, its lowest point from the Sun, around September 27thabout 58 million km from our star.
From now on The comet will begin to approach Earth, reaching a minimum distance of 83,776 million km on October 12 when you expect to reach maximum brightness. The most conservative estimates put the magnitude at -0.1, making it brighter than most stars. What has caused scientists in particular is the uncertainty about how the comet will react to its close passage with the Sun.
One explanation is that it could split due to the heating and recrystallization of the ice, especially increasing its brightness reaching a height of -6.6let it have a different light, About a hundred times larger than other comets that have appeared in the heavens in the twenty-first century..
(Comet/NASA)
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