SpazeGreat comet of 2024
Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
Lit up evening skies in October 2024 with a tail that stretched across the sky. It won’t return for 80,000 years.
- Size
- 5 km
- Path
- Hyperbolic: passing through once
- Closest to Sun
- 0.4 AU
Can we live on Tsuchinshan–ATLAS?
Air: only a faint trace of H₂O, CO₂, C₂, Na, far too thin to breathe. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Ground: Ice and dust.
Atmosphere
- H₂O
- CO₂
- C₂
- Na
Measured by ground spectra