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    Comet HaleBopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for...
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    Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American professional astronomer, who co-discovered Comet HaleBopp along with amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp. Hale specializes...
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    Thomas Joel Bopp (October 15, 1949 – January 5, 2018) was an American amateur astronomer. In 1995, he discovered comet HaleBopp; Alan Hale discovered...
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    and was widely seen around the world. The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet HaleBopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System...
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    the longest recorded period of visibility until the appearance of Comet HaleBopp in 1997. In October 1811, at its brightest, and when it was 1.2 AU...
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    Charles S. "Comet Definitions". Michael Gallagher. Retrieved 31 August 2013. Lallement, Rosine; et al. (2002). "The Shadow of Comet HaleBopp in Lyman-Alpha"...
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    Earth. NEOWISE is known for being the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet HaleBopp in 1997. It was widely photographed by professional...
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  • closest approach of Comet HaleBopp. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "HaleBopp brings closure to Heaven's...
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  • Karl Bopp (1877–1934), German historian of mathematics Thomas Bopp (1949–2018), American astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp Yésica Bopp (born...
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    Donald Machholz (category Discoverers of comets)
    most of Comet Hale-Bopp: when and where to observe Comet Hale-Bopp and what to look for Joe Rao (August 17, 2022). "In Memoriam: Famed 'Comet Hunter'...
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  • publicize their theology. In 1996, they learned of the approach of Comet HaleBopp and rumors of an accompanying spaceship, concluding that this was the...
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    associated with the discovery (e.g. Comet HaleBopp) or the first detailed study (e.g. Halley's Comet) of each comet. During the twentieth century, improvements...
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  • Thumbnail for C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
    the comet from the Sun is ±6000 km. The comet is record breaking because it was already becoming active at such a distance. Only Comet HaleBopp produced...
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    Leipzig. Celtic Voices was written in 1995, Hale Bopp was written in 1997 inspired by Comet Hale-Bopp, and scored for an additional boy soprano. Celtic...
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  • comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet HaleBopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen)...
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    passage of comet Hale-Bopp. Since 1985, a total of 8 comets have been visited by spacecraft. Little is known of what people thought about comets before Aristotle...
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  • Comet, Ballantine, 1997 pg137 Kidger, M. 'Comet Hale-Bopp Light Curve', NASA JPL, accessed 24-Nov-2008 Light Curve Behaviour in C/1995 O1 (HALE-BOPP)...
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    Harold A.; et al. (1997). "The Activity and Size of the Nucleus of Comet HaleBopp (C/1995 O1)". Science. 275 (5308): 1900–1904. Bibcode:1997Sci...275...
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    ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet. March 22 – The Comet HaleBopp makes its closest approach to Earth. March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards...
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  • Thumbnail for Great comet
    Bennett – 1970 Comet West – 1976 Comet Hyakutake – 1996 Comet HaleBopp – 1997 Comet McNaught – 2007 Comet Lovejoy – 2011 A winter comet reported by Ephorus...
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    from such large heliocentric distances is rare: only three other comets, Comet HaleBopp (27.2 AU outbound), C/2010 U3 (Boattini) (25.8 AU inbound), and...
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    it has become possible to observe comets for longer periods of time after perihelion. For example, Comet HaleBopp was observable with the naked eye about...
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  • set to coincide with the arrival of the Hale-Bopp comet on 5 May, 1997. According to the channeling, the comet was a large spaceship containing “cloaking...
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    Examples include Comet HaleBopp with a value of 0.995 and comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) with a value of 1.000019. As HaleBopp's value is less than 1, its...
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  • Thumbnail for Cyanoacetylene
    detected by spectroscopic methods in interstellar clouds, in the coma of comet HaleBopp and in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, where it sometimes forms...
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    Anti-tail (category Comet stubs)
    antitails include Comet Arend–Roland in 1957, Comet Kohoutek in 1973, Comet HaleBopp in 1997, C/1999 H1 (Lee) in 1999, Comet Lulin in 2009, Comet PANSTARRS in...
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    Most of these objects are comets on a calculated path and may not be directly observable. For instance, comet Hale-Bopp was last seen in 2013 at magnitude...
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    could go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet HaleBopp. Some male members of the group underwent voluntary castration in preparation...
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  • Planet Center, retrieved 11 January 2019 Kidger, M. (3 April 1997), Comet Hale-Bopp Light Curve, NASA JPL, retrieved 31 May 2019 Hughes, D. W. (16 June...
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    Solar System (section Comets)
    Kuiper belt, whereas long-period comets, such as HaleBopp, are thought to originate in the Oort cloud. Many comet groups, such as the Kreutz sungrazers...
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