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C/2022 E3 (ZTF) C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a non-periodic comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. [ 1] The comet has a bright green glow around its nucleus, due to the effect of sunlight on diatomic carbon and cyanogen. [ 6][ 5] The comet's systematic designation starts with C to indicate ...
A zoomed-in image of Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) captured on Jan. 23, 2023. (Michael Borland) Celestial sleuths at th Comet E3 to make closest approach to Earth tonight
Anthony Cuthbertson,Graeme Massie and Vishwam Sankaran. February 2, 2023 at 8:18 PM. A green comet is flying past Earth for the first time in 50,000 years, offering skygazers a one-off opportunity ...
Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024. 2026 August 12. Total solar eclipse near lunar perigee. 2027 February 6. Annular solar eclipse. 2027 August 2. Total solar eclipse. 2027 August 7. Asteroid (137108) 1999 AN 10 will pass within 388,960 km (0.0026 AU) of Earth.
Table of meteor showers. Dates are given for 2024. [ 2][ 3] The dates will vary from year to year due to the leap year cycle. This list includes showers with radiants in both the northern and southern hemispheres. There is some overlap, but generally showers whose radiants have positive declinations are best seen from the northern hemisphere ...
The C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet makes its closest approach to Earth on 1 February, 2023. At a relatively close 42 million kilometres (26 million miles) from our planet, and with a brightness value of ...
List of periodic comets. Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage [ 1] (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang ). "Periodic comet" is also sometimes used to mean any comet with a periodic orbit, even if greater than 200 years.
As of March 1, 2017, Sinclair has made the network's live stream available as an app on the Apple TV and Roku digital media player platforms (and in 2019 Sinclair's Stirr service also carries the network), allowing viewers without an over-the-air affiliate to view Comet's programming. Stations listed in BOLD are Comet owned-and-operated.