This week's asteroids will enter the Earth's safety area, which is about 7 and a half million kilometers in radius. 15 asteroids but all of them are very small and the one that passed closest was 2023 RP2, which has 10 to 22 meters in diameter. and it passed on September 10 at 483 thousand kilometers, that is slightly more than the distance that separates the earth from the moon.
The only one potentially dangerous due to its size and because it is 74 to 170 meters in diameter is 2016 LY48, which will pass on September 16 at almost 2 million kilometers.
But the focus among all astrophotographers these days is on Comet Nishimura, CEP 2023 P1, and what is happening to the Comet, this comet will be on September 12 at its closest point to Earth at about 126 million kilometers and on September 17 the Comet will have its closest approach to the sun at about 43.7 million kilometers, that is much closer than Mercury is.
At the moment, as we see in the images, the Comet is having a pretty bad time, because the sun is shaking its tail. Astronomers call what we are seeing a disconnection event, because the solar wind is disconnecting, literally breaking the comet's tail.
The Comet is small, it is a kilometer in diameter, which is a nucleus and it is quite far away, and it is difficult to capture because it is already close to the sun, it can be seen in the early hours or at dusk.
If you are interested, here I leave you the trajectory of the Comet.
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