United Nations green kite will approach the Land for the first time in 50,000 yearsaccording to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the POT. On February 2, the baptized C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will exceed 42 million kilometers from the planet.
Astronomers from the US space agency saw it for the first time in March 2022 and described the comet brightness as “notoriously unpredictable”. In addition, they assured that by next February 2, it could be “visible to the naked eye in dark night skies“.
The comet has agreenish tail, a short broad dust tail and a long wispy ion tail“. It itself has an orbit around the Sun which passes through the confines of the solar system and will approach the star on January 12.
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According to NASA, the comet has a period of about 50,000 years, which means that the last humans who could have seen the C/2022 E3 (ZTF) were perhaps the first living homo sapiens and the tales of neanderthals of the Stone Age.
What is a kite?
The kite They are space objects composed of ice and other elements frozen in their core, among them: hydrogen, carbon dioxide and water are their most common components.
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When they get close to the Sun and get hot, they will become powerful cosmic objectsspewing gases and dust in a way that takes on its iconic shape: a glowing core and a flame-like tail that can stretch for miles of miles.
When and where can the green kite be seen?
The green kite is expected to reach its closest proximity to the Sun on January 12 of 2023. Then, from February 1or, the celestial body would approach about 42 million kilometers from Earth.
According to specialists, its brightness may be visible to the naked eye, although only in dark night skies.
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NASA points out that the comet will be visible with binoculars in it morning sky for observers of North Hemisphere a mid-January and for those of southern hemisphere at the beginning of February.
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