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Rare comet visible in the night sky won’t return for 80,000 years
The Tsuchinshan Observatory in China detected it first in January, followed by a team using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, in South Africa. According to initial ...
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NARIT unveils images of comet visible in Thai sky
However, it was later found that astronomers at the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China had actually discovered the comet earlier, on January 9. Thus, the names of both observatories were combined to ...
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Hong Kong skygazers capture ‘once-in-80,000-years’ comet
The comet was first discovered in images taken in January last year, by the Chinese observatory Tsuchinshan, meaning Purple Mountain. Its orbit period could reach 61,751 years, researchers from ...
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS visible in the night sky, won’t return for 80,000 years
The Tsuchinshan Observatory in China detected it first in January, followed by a team using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, in South Africa. Initial reports from ...