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New Oort Cloud comets

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud − the invisible bubble that’s home to countless space objects

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Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, also known as Comet C/2023 A3 , will be at its brightest, and likely visible to the naked eye, for a week or two after Oct. 12 .

The comet will pass closest to Earth on Oct. 24 look low in the eastern sky just before sunrise.

It’s possible, however, that it could disintegrate, in part or in whole, as sometimes happens when comets pass by the Sun .

New Oort Cloud comets are discovered all the time, a dozen or so per year in recent years .

Odds of any of them colliding with Earth are extremely low, but it is possible, says James Wray .

European Space Agency is preparing a mission to do just that: Comet Interceptor.

Unlike the comet in the DiCaprio movie, these two will not crash into Earth .

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