64: Almost A Good Comet
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Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypod Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York. On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypod Things we talked about in this episode: Atlas: comet C/2019 Y4 ATLAS, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System Hubble watches Atlas breaking up! Comets have two tails Great Comets in history Comet McNaught in 2007 Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 Halley’s Comet in 1986
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Everyone's heard of the famous comets: Halley, McNaught, Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1844. Ok, maybe not that last one. Earlier this year astronomers got very excited about a new comet, called Atlas, winging its way through the Solar System. The Great Comet of 2020? Atlas promised to be quite a show ... until it didn't.
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