A comet that appeared during the reign of Caliph Uthman ibn Affan is due to reappear this week

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The astronomer Imad Mujahid said that he was approaching the sun on Tuesday and Wednesday 12 and 13 February 2019, the new comet coming from outside the Kuet Iwamoto belt (C / 2018 Y1) discovered by the Japanese astronomer Masayuki Iwamoto in his own astronomical observatory In December 2018, about two months ago.

The comet reached the point closest to the planet the seventh of this month of February and appeared in the Virgin, visible since the middle of the night now, because the Virgin shines around one o'clock in the morning and is only 45 million kilometers.

Astronomers said that the comet came from outside the Kuiper belt surrounding the solar system and at a distance of about five times the distance between the Sun and Pluto, which means that it belongs to comets that are well beyond the orbit of Neptune. Ethnos).

According to astronomical calculations, the comet visits the solar system (closer to the sun than the orbit of Mars) every 1371 years due to its very flattened orbit. According to these astronomical calculations, the comet visited our planet in 648 AD, under the Caliph Uthman ibn Affan To return on his next visit in 3390 AD, God willing.

Comet Iwamoto is now visible through astronomical telescopes, passing from the Virgin to the Lion Tower, to the northwest, not to the naked eye, but through binoculars and astronomical telescopes.