Comet Tiamat in Your Name.
Comet Tiamat (ティアマト彗星, Tiamato suisei) is a celestial body. It serves as the key point in Your Name. and also cameos in Weathering with You.
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Overview[]
Comet Tiamat has an orbital period of 50,200 years. For unknown reasons, every time the comet approaches Earth, a piece of itself always mysteriously break out and crash somewhere around the area that would become Itomori. The last time it appeared, a fragment broken from the comet crashed into the area that would become Itomori during the Upper Palaeolithic, with its crater forming Lake Itomori.
2013 Itomori impact event[]
On October 4, 2013, a fragment of 40 meters in diameter from the comet hit the town of Itomori at 8:42 pm. Its impact creates a crater 1 km in diameter, with its shockwave spread as far as 5 km, causing an earthquake measuring 4.8 on Richter scale.
In the original timeline, the comet crashes as Itomori people gather at the autumn festival, causing massive casualties. A third of the population, including Mitsuha Miyamizu, are killed. In the second timeline, with the intervention of future Taki Tachibana, mayor Toshiki Miyamizu is convinced to evacuate everyone to the high school grounds and all Itomori inhabitants are saved, with only 104 people injured.
In Weathering with You[]
Comet Tiamat in Mu magazine
In 2021, the comet is the main subject of Mu magazine's reportage series "The day the comet fell" (彗星が落ちた日, Suisei ga ochita hi) which spans at least 6 issues.
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