According to a study based on Hubbla data, the diameter of the comet nucleus is probably from 300 to 560 km. No one knows where this broom comes from. It is like seeing a bullet released from a rifle to a third in a second. It will not be able to show her past with enough accuracy to understand where she started her way, ” – – Note Astronomer from the University of California at Los Angeles David Jutt.
Comet was found on July 1, moving at an incredible speed of 210,000 km/h. This is the object between the fastest stars. 3i/atlas, perhaps older than the solar system – is nearly 7.6 billion or more. The object does not cause the threat to the Earth and on October 30 will approach the sun at the trajectory distance of Mars. The latest relationship with our planet will occur at a distance of 1.8 of the astronomical unit (about 270 million km).
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Only 3i/atlas is only the third discovery object from the limit of the solar system. The visitors between the stars were formerly a 1i/'Oumuamua cigar, noted in 2017 and a 2i/Borisov comet, discovered in 2019.