Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is a retrograde comet with a nearly parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020
Comet NEOWISE is moving in a parabolic orbit. On July 3, 2020, it passed perihelion, finding itself at a minimum distance of 0.29 astronomical units from the Sun.
Photo: Roscosmos
She will be close to Earth in a few days, 23July, having passed at a distance of 103.5 million km (this is slightly more than half the distance from our planet to the Sun). Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) leaves behind a plume of two tails at once: the first consists of dust particles and stretches along the comet's orbit, the second is narrower, consisting of ions.
The next time the comet will return to the Sun in a few thousand years, the aphelion of its orbit is at a distance of 500-700 astronomical units from the Sun.
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