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- The newfound comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will reach perihelion, its closest point to the sun, on Jan. 3, 2022.
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Jan 1, 2013 · Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) Position Calculator. Compute the position of Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) for any date and time between 1 January 2013 and 30 December 2100 and visualize the results on an interactive sky map.
The interactive orbit chart above shows the comet's path through the solar system and its position at the given date. Green and blue lines are shown perpendicular to the ecliptic plane: Green if the path is above the ecliptic plane, blue if it is below.
Thus, the comet has spent the last 40,000 years inbound from approximately 3,700 AU (550 billion km) (0.06 light year). After perihelion, the comet will be ejected from the Solar System. The barycentric orbit will remain hyperbolic after September 2022. [2] On 12 December 2021 the comet was 0.233 AU (34.9 million km) from Earth and on 18 ...
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will make its closest approach to the Sun on 3 January, at a distance of 0.62 AU. From Virginia Beach on the day of perihelion it will not be readily observable since it will lie so far south that it will never rise more than 17° above the horizon.
Mar 2, 2021 · The newfound comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) will reach perihelion, its closest point to the sun, on Jan. 3, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/JPL)
Nov 29, 2021 · At perihelion, comet 2021 A1 (Leonard) will lie around 92.7 million kilometres (0.61 AU) from the Sun. It was discovered out in Jupiter’s domain (~5 AU away) as a tiny smudge of light with an apparent diameter of around 10” and shining at nineteenth-magnitude.
Dec 3, 2021 · Since then, it's inched steadily closer to both the Sun and Earth and will reach perihelion — closest approach to the Sun — on January 3, 2022. Three weeks prior, on December 12th, it will pass nearest the Earth at a distance of 21.7 million miles (34.9 million km).
