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  • Super Rare Green Comet Is About to Pass By the Earth

    From risky biz@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 6 11:08:00 2023
    A Super Rare Green Comet Is About to Pass By the Earth

    'A newly-detected green comet is about to do a flyby near our Pale Blue Dot — and it may be visible to the naked eye.

    When issuing its January 2023 skywatching predictions, NASA and CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared that between January 12 and February 2, a green comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will first approach the Sun and then circle back around towards Earth.

    In the Northern Hemisphere, the JPL post continues, skywatchers will be able to see the comet in the morning sky at the end of January. Observers in the Southern Hemisphere, meanwhile, should be able to see it in early February.

    Space.com pinpoints the best viewing date even more precisely: during the new moon on January 21, when the sky will be extra-dark without the Moon's light.'
    https://futurism.com/the-byte/rare-green-comet

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  • From BTSinAustin@21:1/5 to risky biz on Fri Jan 6 11:49:10 2023
    On Friday, January 6, 2023 at 2:08:05 PM UTC-5, risky biz wrote:
    A Super Rare Green Comet Is About to Pass By the Earth

    'A newly-detected green comet is about to do a flyby near our Pale Blue Dot — and it may be visible to the naked eye.

    When issuing its January 2023 skywatching predictions, NASA and CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory declared that between January 12 and February 2, a green comet named C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will first approach the Sun and then circle back around towards
    Earth.

    In the Northern Hemisphere, the JPL post continues, skywatchers will be able to see the comet in the morning sky at the end of January. Observers in the Southern Hemisphere, meanwhile, should be able to see it in early February.

    Space.com pinpoints the best viewing date even more precisely: during the new moon on January 21, when the sky will be extra-dark without the Moon's light.'
    https://futurism.com/the-byte/rare-green-comet

    Reminds me of Haley's and how disappointing our pass was. In earlier passes, it was big enough that people thought it was the end of the world.

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