This is a serious question currently in my region, what's the "sun"?
Constant cloud, drizzle and rain locally, I'll get it next time around.....
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Originally Posted by WIKI
Some media report C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) approaches the Sun once every 160,000 years. However, according to long-term orbital calculations by the JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System, after approach to the Sun in 2025, aphelion distance of the comet will be more than twice as far away as before, and its orbital period will be about 600,000 years.
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Is that 160,000 years or 600,000 years?
I guess if finances improve I'll have a better camera by then.