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Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

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Etymology

February 2023, from Tsuchinshan + ATLAS, names of two observatories that observed the comet.

  1. derived from *telh₂-✻
  2. derived from Ἄτλας
  3. borrowed from Ā̆tlās
  4. compounded as tsuchinshan-atlas — “Tsuchinshan + ATLAS”

Definitions

  1. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), a comet visible to the naked eye in 2024.

    • Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, like all comets, is a frozen chunk of leftover material from the birth of the solar system. The comet begins to melt as it nears the sun, causing the ball of ice to sprout a diffuse tail.
    • With an orbit of 80,000 years, Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was last visible from our planet during the era of the Neanderthals, according to NASA.

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