Preview: Colleague Bob Zimmerman introduces the comet of the weekend in the western sky at sunset, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS - no longer associated with the death of kings or the birth of princes or war, is the tale. More later.
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Bachelor. The Comet's name is Chuchin Shan, Atlas. It is visible to the west in these next several days. |
| 0:08.0 | Bob Zimmerman introduces comments on the comet on the comet, |
| 0:12.6 | waiting for the scale of the member |
| 0:15.4 | the tail flies away because of the solar winds |
| 0:18.8 | push it away. |
| 0:19.7 | Comets are heavily water. However, I do remind myself having learned it once upon a time about Holly's common |
| 0:29.0 | comments are associated throughout time except for maybe the last hundred years. |
| 0:34.0 | With the death of kings and the birth of kings and war, |
| 0:39.0 | events in the atmosphere come to earth that are not harbingers of good news, very rarely good news. |
| 0:48.0 | So we don't believe that anymore. |
| 0:51.0 | Here's Bob Zimmerman introducing where to see Comet Chishon Atlas. |
| 0:57.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, this comment was discovered a while back, but it's finally doing its close approach to the sun, and it is brightened significantly, and you know, you can never predict these things. |
| 1:10.0 | So I tend to not join in any hype about future comments until they finally do it. |
| 1:15.0 | And it appears that comment, Ceaseun-Shan Atlas is going to do it. |
| 1:19.4 | It right now is bright, it's naked, I have visibility, and it's in the evening sky on the west and |
| 1:24.2 | I've got details on behind the black where to look but basically right now if you |
| 1:28.3 | go out in the evening sky in a relatively dark place you should be able to see this |
| 1:33.9 | comment for the next week or so after sunset in the west and that's kind of cool |
| 1:40.4 | it's you know it's not a common held bop by any means I don't think it's |
| 1:45.6 | going to be quite that bright but it's still going to be there and you can see it |
| 1:48.4 | and that's a cool thing |
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