“Somehow it was dislodged from the Oort Cloud, putting it in a highly elongated orbit that brought it close to the sun.” As ...

traveling elongated orbital paths that can take decades or centuries to complete one round-trip journey. Often these journeys end with the comet melting down and breaking up under the heat and ...

That ratio is more extreme than that of any asteroid or comet ever observed in our Solar ... so we are confident this is really elongated. Also, one has to realise we don't know where the rotation ...

When comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was first discovered in late September, it was almost immediately identified as a member of the ...