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Joel Kontinen
The ion tail of
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) could appear as a blue streak across the northern
hemisphere sky during October, in a rare event thought to happen only every few
decades.
Can the Earth go
through the iron tail of a comet?
It is a fact, but
it will be comfortable with no risks.
”Earth
is about to have a close encounter with a comet, possibly passing through its
ion tail – a rare occurrence. If we are lucky, it could show up as a blue
streak in the northern hemisphere night sky.
Samuel Grant at
University College London and Geraint Jones at the European Space
Agency say there is a good chance that tonight, 10 October, our planet will
intersect the path of the ion tail of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).”
Source:
Jonathan
O’Callaghan 2024.
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