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The Gulf of Mexico ( Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [2] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [3] It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco ...
Gulf Harbors is an unincorporated community in western Pasco County, Florida, United States, near New Port Richey; however, the community has not been a census-designated place since 1970. According to Rand McNally , the latest population estimates for the community is approximately 5,000.
10.5 ± 0.6 [3] 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 that ...
A green comet named Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), which last passed by our planet about 50,000 years ago, is seen from the Pico de las Nieves, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, February 1, 2023 ...
An image of Comet E3 captured over the course of 1.2 hours on Feb. 1, 2023. (Michael Borland) Comet E3 has been the hottest topic in the world of astronomy since the start of 2023, and skywatchers ...
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will pass near Earth and the sun this month and could be bright enough for skywatchers to see through telescopes and binoculars. A ‘green’ comet will pass by Earth for ...
The Chicxulub crater ( IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo. [3] It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when a large meteorite, about ten kilometers (six miles ...
Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz sungrazer. It was discovered in November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . The comet's perihelion took it through the Sun's corona on 16 December 2011, after which it emerged intact, though greatly impacted by the event.