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Taken at the Matz Farmstead Ruins, Cross Plains, Wisconsin, on October 15, 2024, at 7:30 PM. 1 hour and 16 minutes after sunset.
The A3 comet is a dusty ball of ice from the Oort Cloud that takes about 80,000 years to orbit the sun. That means some of the last people to see it were Neanderthals.
The comet was identified by observers at the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China and an ATLAS, or Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, telescope in South Africa.
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- Cassius J Callender Photography
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