The latest orbital elements suggest that the comet is currently traveling on an orbital path with an eccentricity of 1.00027, or in other words, a parabolic orbit. Such an orbit is not closed ...

The comet’s orbit has a high eccentricity. If the comet is bound, it will take millions of years to go around the Sun. But there is a chance that the comet is no longer bound to the Solar System.

As Canadian comet hunter David Levy once quipped ... The shape of an object’s orbit is specified by a characteristic called its eccentricity, or deviation from a circle.

When Comet Kohoutek was discovered when still remarkably ... The latest orbital computations show that Tsuchinshan–ATLAS has an eccentricity of 1.0002280, which means it is traveling in a ...

Content continues below With an eccentricity greater than 1, that means the comet is no longer bound to the Sun. It is following an 'escape trajectory' — one that's either parabolic or ...

And you thought your commute was long. A comet that has been on an 81,000-year journey to fly by Earth is finally arriving — and should be visible in our skies in the upcoming days, according to ...

There’s always another comet. Last year there was much ballyhoo over the so-called “devil comet,” some will-it-won’t-it drama of Tsunchinshan-ATLAS, and the sudden discovery (and quick ...

One of cosmic history’s greatest acts of photo-bombing will take place on April 8, when the great solar eclipse is unfolding across North America. Tens of millions of people in the path of the ...

A freshly-discovered comet has lots of skywatchers training their telescopes on the dawn sky, but pretty soon the new Comet SWAN25F will flip to our evening sky, and allow a lot of us to get a ...

San Diegans witnessed a comet streak across the night sky over the weekend -- and it may not have been the last time to experience it. Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is passing by Earth from the outer ...

Have you seen it yet?If you happened to look up in the western sky just after sunset the past couple of days and a celestial streak caught your eye, you just saw comet A-3, or comet Tsuchinshan ...