Comet C/2023 E1 ATLAS shut to Perihelion

Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) changed into appropriate spotted in March, one other comet chanced on by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impression Final Alert Machine. On July 1 this Comet ATLAS reached perihelion, its closest come to the Sun. Almost in the present day afterwards the telescopic comet changed into captured on this body sporting a capable greenish coma and faint, slim ion tail against a background of stars in the some distance northern constellation Usa Minor. This comet’s closest come to Earth remains to be to come abet though. On August 18 this visitor to the interior Listing voltaic Machine will be a mere 3 light-minutes or so from our ultimate planet. In line with its inclination to the ecliptic airplane and orbital duration of about 85 years C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) is idea-about a Halley-kind comet.