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A Green Comet May be Seen in Florida For the First Time in 50,000 Years - NBC 6 South Florida
Feb 02, 2023 49 secs
The comet C/2022 E3(ZTF), a name that NASA acknowledges is a mouthful, is passing through the inner solar system.

The comet will be closest to Earth on Thursday, Feb. 2, and observers in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see it in the morning sky, NASA says.

“Comets are notoriously unpredictable, but if this one continues its current trend in brightness, it'll be easy to spot with binoculars, and it's just possible it could become visible to the unaided eye under dark skies,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology.

It was last in the solar system during the Upper Paleolithic era in the Ice Ages but whether it was visible from Earth then is not known.

It was discovered by astronomers at the Zwicky Transient Facility with its wide-field survey camera.

“Since then the new long-period comet has brightened substantially and is now sweeping across the northern constellation Corona Borealis in predawn skies,” according to NASA.

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