Comet Atlas may have been a blast from the past

Comet Atlas may have been a blast from the past

Space Daily

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Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2021

However, this nameless space visitor is not recorded in any known historical account. So how do astronomers know that there was such an interplanetary intruder? Enter comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4), which first appeared near the beginning of 2020. Comet ATLAS, first detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), operated by the University of Hawaii, quickly met an untimely

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