Map of solar system and location of the comet and the inner planets. Its orbit is highly inclined wrt the ecliptic, now approaching from below.

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 09:49:40 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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   Here is the current location of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS).

   Tsuchinshan–ATLAS originated from the Oort cloud and was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory on 9 Jan 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 Feb 2023. Its period is millions of years and will likely not appear again.

   Distance from Sun today = 0.4 AU
   Distance from Earth = 0.98 AU
   Perihelion: Sep 27
   Closest approach to earth: Oct 12

   https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Tsuchinshan-ATLAS&view=VOPC
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan%E2%80%93ATLAS)
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