Possible naked-eye comet will visit Earth for 1st time since Neanderthals in 2023
"The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) could be bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye as it passes the sun and Earth at the end of the first month of 2023."
"The comet, named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), is currently passing through the inner solar system. It will make its closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, on Jan. 12, and will then whip past Earth making its closest passage of our planet, its perigee, between Feb. 1 and Feb. 2."
"If the comet continues to brighten as it currently is, it could be visible in dark skies with the naked eye. This is difficult to predict for comets, but even if C/2022 E3 (ZTF) does fade it should still be visible with binoculars or a telescope for a number of days around its close approach."
"According to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the comet has a period of around 50,000 years. This means that prior to it coming to within around 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) of the sun on Jan. 12 and 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of Earth on Feb. 2, the last time it came so close was during the Upper Paleolithic period on Earth."
("Well I just dont believe that"
I can hear 'em sayin it already Lucy honey.
And I'm like, go read up on some Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
People these days will believe everything thing they wanna see on FB, IG, Tik Tok etc and this see this and go naw, I'm just gonna choose not to believe it...Don't be those people...Just don't, it's not very wise and I'll tell ya more about why that is here in a second.)
"That means the last humans that could have spotted C/2022 E3 (ZTF) were early homo sapiens alive during the last glacial period or "ice age." So, too, could some say of the last Neanderthals, as that species became extinct around 10,000 years after the last perihelion of C/2022 E3 (ZTF).
"Of course, the Neanderthals and early humans wouldn't have known what C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was, and the comet was identified much more recently than the last ice age. The comet was spotted by the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility in early March 2022."
Here's why it's important to believe it's been 50,000 years since this comet has last been here:
Genesis 1:14
"And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years. "
NIV says:
"mark the sacred times"
It's not just Spring, Summer, Winter and fFll being talked about here and no it's not astrology where the heavenly bodies are said to influence humans behavior, this is the exact opposite, this is God Almighty displaying the signs of the times in his awesome glory.
Joel 2
The Day of the Lord
28 “And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
29 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
30 I will show wonders in the heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
31 The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
32 And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved;
for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
there will be deliverance,
as the Lord has said,
even among the survivors
whom the Lord calls.
From Matthew Henry's commentary on
Joel 2:
"There is a great and terrible day of the Lord coming, which shall be ushered in with wonders in heaven and earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke, the turning of the sun into darkness and the moon into blood."
"Those on whom the Spirit is poured out shall foresee and foretel that great and terrible day of the Lord, and expound the wonders in heaven and earth that go before it; for, as to his first coming, so to his second, all the prophets did and do bear witness, Rev. 10:7"
"Revelation 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
"I will show wonders in the heavens..."
"Those on whom the Spirit is poured out shall foresee and foretel that great and terrible day of the Lord, and expound the wonders in heaven and earth that go before it; for, as to his first coming, so to his second, all the prophets did and do bear witness..."
Lets review shall we?
So we got comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) coming at us now that hasn't been here in 50,000 years:
and was only discovered 2 March 2022.
And we had comet
that hadn't been here in 90,000 years before it showed up a few years back.
We've had
"...the first observed rogue comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua."
We've had:
"Our first ever interstellar visitor"
(Sped up as it left BTW, nobody really knows why or how...)
We've had:
"Our first interstellar meteor..."
We've had:
The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
21 December 2020
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