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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries - NASA Science (.gov)
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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries - NASA Science (.gov)

How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s DiscoveriesNASA Science (.gov) Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS May Have Formed Around An Old, Low-Metallicity Star In The Milky Way's Outer DiskI...

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Daniel Fischer 2h ago

Whatever eagerly awaited #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is up to - see also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118409957 and https://nitter.net/JAtanackov/status/2035718257060036738 and https://scicomm.xyz/@qicheng@cometary.org/116262858373488354 - less than two weeks from perihelion, it has developed a long plasma tail now: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25816609931372735 (Rhemann & Jäger yesterday with a 12 inch telescope; full and detail).

Where are we now?12h ago

2026-03-22 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-21)

☄️88P/HOWELL
- Barycentric speed: 31.96 km/s (-0.00 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth in: 201 days
- Brightness (Mag): 14.82 (-0.00)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small/medium telescope | Dark sky

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 296,677,216.68 km (-281,614.43 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.98 (-0.00)
- Light travel time: 16 min 29.64 s (-0.94 s)

#88P #Howell #Comet #Space

Where are we now?12h ago

2026-05-26 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-05-25)

☄️C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS
- Barycentric speed: 43.06 km/s (-0.39 km/s)
- Perihelion - occured
- Closest approach to Earth - occurred
- Brightness (Mag): 12.74 (+0.13)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small telescope | Suburban sky

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 200,326,788.95 km (+4,768,171.68 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.34 (+0.03)
- Light travel time: 11 min 8.24 s (+15.91 s)

#C2025R3 #PanSTARRS #Comet #Space

Where are we now?12h ago

2026-03-22 04:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-03-21)

☄️C/2026 A1 (MAPS)
- Barycentric speed: 53.62 km/s (+1.28 km/s)
- Perihelion in: 13 days
- Closest approach to Earth in: 14 days
- Brightness (Mag): 12.07 (-0.32)
- Visibility: Both hemispheres | Small telescope | Urban sky

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 177,852,769.32 km (-987,746.27 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.19 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 9 min 53.27 s (-3.29 s)

#C2026A1 #Maps #Comet #Space

Comet Bot 15h ago

#comet

3i/Atlas 21h ago

How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system
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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives. More than a dozen NASA science mission...

Comet Bot 21h ago

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