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848-C.2024 E1 (Wierzchos)

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On March 3, 2024 my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object in the constellation of Draco. After Kacper reported his discovery to the Minor Planet Center, observers in Arizona, New Mexico, and Tenerife confirmed it to be a comet and it was given the name C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos). Kacper’s discovery has a hyperbolic orbit indicating that after coming slightly closer to the Sun than the planet Venus on January 21, 2026 it will be ejected from the solar system never to return.
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