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Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was unable to survive its approach to the Sun and disintegrated on October 28. As Day.Az reports, this was stated by the leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, Mikhail Leus, in his Telegram channel.
“Comet C/2024 S1 – ATLAS did not survive its approach to the Sun and, judging by the incoming videos, was destroyed by it on October 28 at about 10 a.m. (Moscow time), which deprived us of the opportunity to observe another interesting astronomical event,” he noted.
On October 14, a researcher at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Sergei Nazarov, said that comet C/2023 A3 became visible in Russia with the naked eye, its brightness was comparable to the brightness of the main star in the constellation Lyra - Vega.
Comet C/2023 A3 Zijinshan-ATLAS was first discovered on January 9, 2023 at the Zijinshan Observatory (Purple Mountain, China) and independently recorded by the ATLAS 50-cm telescope in South Africa on February 22 of the same year. On October 12, the comet passed perigee – the minimum distance to Earth - about 70 million kilometers, the Moscow Planetarium reported.
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