C/2020 R4 From https://www.universetoday.com/150895/catch-comet-r4-atlas-as-it-nears-earth/ Discovered on the night of September 12th, 2020 by the prolific automated Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) sky survey based in Haleakala (ALTAS-HKO) and Mauna Loa (ATLAS-MLO) Hawaii, R4 ATLAS has proven to be an over-achiever. In fact, it was never initially predicted to top +10th magnitude… until a surprise outburst in late December 2020 shot it up 100-fold in brightness, from +18th to +13th magnitude. As of writing this, it sits at about +8th magnitude ‘with a bullet,’ and may top out +7th magnitude this week. Clearly, this is a dynamic comet with lots going on… and one more well-placed outburst this week could nudge it into naked eye territory. The comet reached perihelion on its 957-year orbit on March 1st, 2021 at 1.029 Astronomical Units (AU)(95.7 million miles/154 million kilometers) from the Sun. Had the comet dropped by in August, its passage versus the Earth would have been four times closer.
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