Earlier this week, we posted the image at right, of a naked eye visible comment (seen in the high Rockies at night) and believed to have originated from far off in the Oort Cloud.
And yet, as with all good science, better data leads to better estimations. So now NASA has updated its estimates -- related to the bright comet presently vidible in our Southwestern skies. The comment was earlier thought to only visit Earth once every 80,000 years. But that now looks to be incorrect. It has likely achieved escape velocity, as it bent around our own Sun.
. . .The orbits of comets are continuously revised as new observational data becomes available. An earlier version of this article cited a period of 80,000 years for C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, which is no longer accurate based on newly available data.
As of October 14, 2024, the comet’s path may take it out of the solar system altogether. . . .
And so, quite literally, the old Seals & Croft song here applies. I can candidly admit to being slightly sad about it -- as well. We may indeed never pass this way again (and I am certain I won't):
nope. not likely -- ever again. hmmm.
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