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It seems that Comet C / 2019Y4 Atlas has partially fragmented its nucleus, in recent days the light growth curve was flat, on the contrary weaker in different photometric apertures, the elongated appearance does not indicate anything good for the survival of the nucleus, I announce it as you know via Atel 13620-13622: Quanzhi Ye (U. Maryland), Qicheng Zhang (Caltech) and confirmed yesterday by the 2M Liverpool telescope. from the Canary Islands.

In this image I made yesterday night with the 36 cms. from my observatory an elongated double core can be seen, already in images from previous days, recalls the same structure of the also ill-fated C / 1999S4 Linear.

regards

Albert Sánchez