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Credit & Copyright: Hao Liu (Stanford University)
Explanation:
Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in
a single exposure taken at
Purple Mountain
(Tsuchinshan)
ObservatoryÁs Xuyi Station in
2020, during planet Earth's annual Perseid meteor shower.
The dome in the foreground houses
the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST),
the largest multi-purpose Schmidt telescope in China.
Located in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province,
the station began its operation
as an extension of China's Purple Mountain Observatory
in 2006.
Darling
of planet Earth's night skies
in 2024, the bright comet designated
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
(C/2023 A3)
was discovered in images taken there on 2023 January 9.
The discovery is jointly credited to NASA's
ATLAS
robotic survey telescope
at Sutherland Observatory, South Africa.
Other comet discoveries associated with the historic Purple Mountain
Observatory and bearing the observatory's
transliterated Mandarin name include
periodic comets 60/P Tsuchinshan and 62/P Tsuchinshan.
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