Blue Headed Vireo

by | Feb 27, 2018 | Corvoidea - Vireo

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C/2019 Y1 (ATLAS) is a comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered by the ATLAS survey on 16 December 2019. It passed perihelion on 15 March 2020 at 0.84 AU from the Sun.[1] Its orbit is very similar to C/1988 A1 (Liller), C/1996 Q1 (Tabur), C/2015 F3 (SWAN) and C/2023 V5 (Leonard), suggesting they may be fragments of a larger ancient comet.

1 week motion across the sky

Observations

The comet passed close to Earth in early May 2020. It was visible in the northern hemisphere sky in the spring of 2020.

References

  1. ^ a b "Small-Body Database Lookup".

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