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English: Finson-Probstein diagram for comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) when the Earth crossed its orbital plane on 14 October, 2024 at 18:30 UT . looking down on the orbital plane The directions of the Sun and Earth are indicated with orange and blue arrows respectively. The comet's orbit is shown in gray. Synchrones are solid lines labelled with the time in days since emission. Syndynes are the dotted lines labelled by beta. The flattened ellipses constituting the neck-line structure are color-coded with beta = 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04 and 0.05 shown in red, orange, yellow, green and blue respectively.
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Finson-Probstein diagram and neck-line structure for comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) on 14 October, 2024 looking down on the orbital plane

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