The Comet of the century C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is moving away from us, perhaps never to return since it is very possible that it will become an Interstellar comet and leave the solar system, although if it ultimately returns to Earth we will not see it again. have it close, because we won't have it again for millions of years, although there is a very high probability that it will end up leaving the solar system.
This comet that is already moving away from us is leaving, but we have another one, Comet C224 S1 Atlas, the media is already calling it Halloween Comet this time I think they got the nickname right, not only because it can be visible to the naked eye for Halloween is that the last thing we know about him is that he may transform into a headless comet.
This Comet was discovered on September 27 and is a shadow of the Kreutz Sun, which is what the fragments of an ancient giant comet of more than 100 km in diameter are called that broke up when it got too close to the Sun about 2,300 years ago, according to According to the ancient wise men of Greece who were the ones who saw this event, this comet could be as bright as the Comet of the century, since it is going to get very close to the sun and that is a very important factor in comets because the closer they get to the sun The more they heat up in the sun and therefore the more they vaporize and the more they shine.
If the Comet of the century, which we have seen a lot of photos and many people have seen in recent days, if this comet of the century only reached 58 million kilometers from the sun, this new Comet will have its closest approach to the sun on October 28 and at only 1,200,000 km that's why they call them low, that title is very fair, but the point is that getting so close to the sun is the downfall of the Comet, because it is believed that its nucleus, which was perhaps a few hundred meters deep, diameter has disintegrated leaving only a cloud of small fragments so we will only see the tail of it, a headless comet.
In the southern hemisphere, the best time to see the comet is in the days before the perihelion of October 28, while, in the northern hemisphere, the comet could be seen a few days after the perihelion, that is, after October 28. October.
Comets sublimate so much that they vaporize the ice they have when orbiting the sun or any other star, and they reach a point where they have no material to vaporize and they end up becoming asteroids, because comets are basically ice, but they also have rocks. and there is dust and all that dusty material concentrates and becomes an asteroid, there are several asteroids that are known to be remains of ancient comets, for example, there was a famous one that became famous on Halloween and it was the skull asteroid because When they made the radar observation of that asteroid when it passed near the Earth, it gave the image of an authentic skull, a human skull, that asteroid is the remains of an ancient comet.
Thank you for visiting my blog. If you like posts about #science, #planet, #politics, #rights #crypto, #traveling and discovering secrets and beauties of the #universe, feel free to Follow me as these are the topics I write about the most. Have a wonderful day and stay on this great platform :) :)
! The truth will set us free and science is the one that is closest to the truth!
