796-COMET C.2024 E1 (Wierzchos)-Preview

Travelers In The Night

English - May 10, 2024 16:00 - 2 minutes - 3.68 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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On the 3rd of March 2024 while asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon , Arizona my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovered a comet moving through the constellation of Draco.Since we don’t know Kacper’s comet’s chemical composition it is impossible to accurately predict how. bright it will be as it crosses the Earth’s orbit December 12, 2025, rounds the sun January 20, 2026, and crosses our orbit again February 27, 2026.