Everyone's heard of the famous comets: Halley, McNaught, Hale-Bopp, the Great Comet of 1844. Ok, maybe not that last one. Earlier this year astronomers got very excited about a new comet, called Atlas, winging its way through the Solar System. The Great Comet of 2020? Atlas promised to be quite a show ... until it didn't.
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Things we talked about in this episode:
Atlas: comet C/2019 Y4
ATLAS, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
Hubble watches Atlas breaking up!
Comet McNaught in 2007
Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997
Halley’s Comet in 1986