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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://fosstodon.org/users/AkaSci/statuses/113203578587630268">AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 09:49:40 JST</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci" title="akasci@fosstodon.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/20805-48-20221219024513.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="AkaSci 🛰️" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">AkaSci 🛰️</a><div><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113203532178374641" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p>Here is the current location of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS).</p><p>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.</p><p>Distance from Sun today = 0.4 AU<br>Distance from Earth = 0.98 AU<br>Perihelion: Sep 27<br>Closest approach to earth: Oct 12</p><p><a href="https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Tsuchinshan-ATLAS&amp;view=VOPC" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Tsuchinshan-ATLAS&amp;view=VOPC</a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan%E2%80%93ATLAS)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan%E2%80%93ATLAS)</a><br>2/n</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3754246#notice-7349431">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-10-01T09:49:40+09:00" title="Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 09:49:40 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113203578587630268" rel="external" title="Sent from fosstodon.org via ActivityPub">fosstodon.org</a></span></span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113203578587630268">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3244187">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.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/203/850/123/345/280/original/9244bdaa0b686f46.png" rel="external">https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/203/850/123/345/280/original/9244bdaa0b686f46.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan%E2%80%93ATLAS)">C</a></h5><div></div></header><div>C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is cee (pronounced ), plural cees.History"C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)".
In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive voicing, so the Greek 'Γ' (Gamma) was adopted into the Etruscan alphabet to represent /k/. Already in the Western Greek...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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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1. 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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2. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org
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  C, or c, is the third letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is cee (pronounced ), plural cees. History "C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel = "camel" can be derived from the picture of a camel (it may show his hump, or his head and neck!)". In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive voicing, so the Greek 'Γ' (Gamma) was adopted into the Etruscan alphabet to represent /k/. Already in the Western Greek...

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