Comet Hale–Bopp (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...
47 KB (5,089 words) - 15:31, 20 May 2024
Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American professional astronomer, who co-discovered Comet Hale–Bopp along with amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp. Hale specializes...
35 KB (3,774 words) - 05:09, 22 November 2023
Thomas Joel Bopp (October 15, 1949 – January 5, 2018) was an American amateur astronomer. In 1995, he discovered comet Hale–Bopp; Alan Hale discovered...
18 KB (1,850 words) - 06:12, 22 November 2023
and was widely seen around the world. The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System...
37 KB (4,077 words) - 07:17, 4 April 2024
the longest recorded period of visibility until the appearance of Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. In October 1811, at its brightest, and when it was 1.2 AU...
13 KB (1,405 words) - 14:43, 19 March 2024
Karl Bopp (1877–1934), German historian of mathematics Thomas Bopp (1949–2018), American astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp Yésica Bopp (born...
712 bytes (117 words) - 23:28, 27 June 2023
Charles S. "Comet Definitions". Michael Gallagher. Retrieved 31 August 2013. Lallement, Rosine; et al. (2002). "The Shadow of Comet Hale–Bopp in Lyman-Alpha"...
144 KB (15,291 words) - 08:32, 4 May 2024
Earth. NEOWISE is known for being the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. It was widely photographed by professional...
26 KB (2,273 words) - 07:32, 9 June 2024
closest approach of Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the mass suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: "Hale–Bopp brings closure to Heaven's...
66 KB (7,694 words) - 03:35, 11 June 2024
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'...
10 KB (912 words) - 20:38, 25 December 2023
publicize their theology. In 1996, they learned of the approach of Comet Hale–Bopp and rumors of an accompanying spaceship, concluding that this was the...
64 KB (8,000 words) - 09:45, 17 May 2024
C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) (redirect from Comet 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 Hale–Bopp produced...
14 KB (1,284 words) - 23:06, 15 January 2024
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...
43 KB (5,769 words) - 08:53, 28 July 2023
associated with the discovery (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp) or the first detailed study (e.g. Halley's Comet) of each comet. During the twentieth century, improvements...
14 KB (1,655 words) - 06:27, 27 March 2024
comets (e.g. Halley's Comet), non-periodic comets (e.g. Comet Hale–Bopp), comets with no meaningful orbit (the Great Comet of 1106), and lost comets (5D/Brorsen)...
39 KB (1,181 words) - 08:13, 24 September 2023
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...
7 KB (564 words) - 12:49, 7 September 2023
Anti-tail (category Comet stubs)
antitails include Comet Arend–Roland in 1957, Comet Kohoutek in 1973, Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997, C/1999 H1 (Lee) in 1999, Comet Lulin in 2009, Comet PANSTARRS in...
4 KB (437 words) - 14:35, 3 December 2023
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)...
6 KB (631 words) - 14:44, 26 December 2023
ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet. March 22 – The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth. March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards...
32 KB (3,393 words) - 03:47, 30 May 2024
Bennett – 1970 Comet West – 1976 Comet Hyakutake – 1996 Comet Hale–Bopp – 1997 Comet McNaught – 2007 Comet Lovejoy – 2011 A winter comet reported by Ephorus...
10 KB (1,194 words) - 00:41, 14 May 2024
it has become possible to observe comets for longer periods of time after perihelion. For example, Comet Hale–Bopp was observable with the naked eye about...
12 KB (790 words) - 05:19, 7 February 2023
Harold A.; et al. (1997). "The Activity and Size of the Nucleus of Comet Hale–Bopp (C/1995 O1)". Science. 275 (5308): 1900–1904. Bibcode:1997Sci...275...
99 KB (9,831 words) - 04:09, 11 June 2024
detected by spectroscopic methods in interstellar clouds, in the coma of comet Hale–Bopp and in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, where it sometimes forms...
4 KB (303 words) - 15:41, 13 August 2023
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein) (redirect from Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein)
from such large heliocentric distances is rare: only three other comets, Comet Hale–Bopp (27.2 AU outbound), C/2010 U3 (Boattini) (25.8 AU inbound), and...
55 KB (4,931 words) - 19:30, 5 May 2024
Ground Crew Project (section Hale-Bopp)
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...
21 KB (2,851 words) - 18:57, 7 May 2024
List of Solar System objects by greatest aphelion (section Comets with greatest aphelion (2 body heliocentric))
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...
27 KB (1,667 words) - 00:53, 10 May 2024
and numerous other bodies. Some comets have a sodium tail, which was first detected in observations of Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997. Sodium has even been detected...
69 KB (8,164 words) - 16:32, 24 May 2024
Examples include Comet Hale–Bopp with a value of 0.995 and comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) with a value of 1.000019. As Hale–Bopp's value is less than 1, its...
25 KB (2,701 words) - 16:44, 8 June 2024
could go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet Hale–Bopp. Some male members of the group underwent voluntary castration in preparation...
29 KB (3,243 words) - 16:39, 26 March 2024
around Comet Kohoutek in the 1970s. SOHO detected a hydrogen gas halo bigger than 1 AU in radius around Comet Hale–Bopp. Water emitted by the comet is broken...
15 KB (1,489 words) - 19:52, 30 July 2023