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A green comet will pass Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. If the clouds do not throw a spanner in the works, the object is visible to the naked eye. You can only really see the comet with a telescope or binoculars. Preferably in a dark place.
Just after midnight, the distance between the comet and the Earth is the smallest. There are still about 42 million kilometers between the two objects, but for spatial concepts this is very small.
The comet was only discovered last March by Californian astronomers. They gave the nickname Green Comet. The celestial body is officially called C/2022 E3.
The comet is little more than a dirty rock with ice, gas and dust. As the comet approaches the sun, the ice evaporates. This evaporation gives the comet its distinctive tail. In this case, this tail is actually green. This color is probably caused by certain substances from the comet colliding with sunlight.
Neanderthals saw the comet for the last time
The comet circles around the sun a lot. When the Green Comet last passed, the Last Ice Age was still in progress. There were even Neanderthals still walking the earth and the Stone Age was not over yet. Its long spacewalk makes the comet unique. Not all comets take this long. Comet Halley, for example, visits us every 76 years.
The celestial body likely originated from the Oort Cloud, a cloud filled with billions of comet-like objects that surrounds our solar system.
Too bad it will be cloudy in most places in the Netherlands next night. However, the comet did not immediately disappear from view after that. The comet can still be seen a few nights with a telescope.
After that, the green visitor disappears from our field of view and the object begins a new 50,000 year orbit around the sun.
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