- According to NASA, a green comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is approaching Earth.
- The last time a comet passed through our solar system was 50,000 years ago. Kanzan.
- The comet will pass about 26 million miles from Earth on February 2nd.
The green comet passed by Earth in February for the first time since the Stone Age and won’t return for another 50,000 years. NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dubbed C/2022 E3 (ZTF), the comet will pass about 26 million miles from Earth on February 2. KanzanFeb. 2 will be the day the comet makes its closest approach to Earth since the Upper Paleolithic, when humans are believed to have left Africa and settled in Asia and Europe, the outlet reported.
Astronomers first spotted the comet in March, according to a NASA news release.
“A new long-period comet has brightened significantly and is sweeping the northern constellation Borealis in the predawn sky.” NASA said in a December 24 news release.
According to NASA, the brightness is Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is “notoriously unpredictable” but could be “visible only to the naked eye in dark skies” by February 2nd. According to NASA, the comet has a “greenish coma, a short broad dust tail, and a long, faint ion tail.”
according to United States of America todaythe comet can be seen by people in the northern hemisphere in the predawn sky with binoculars and telescopes in the dark and clear skies throughout January.
Experts report that the comet likely came from the Oort Cloud, the most distant region of the solar system.
