China’s Tsuchinshan (or “Purple Mountain”) Observatory and an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South Africa documented it for the first time in history as ...
ATLAS stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The main difference between this comet and the prior one is their distance from the sun. Last week's comet passed about halfway ...
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was discovered in 2023 by China's Tsuchinshan Observatory and South Africa’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope. The comet made ...