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    Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996; its passage...
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    the Sun, respectively. On 1 May 1996, the spacecraft unexpectedly crossed the ion tail of Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2), revealing the tail to be at least...
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  • astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996, while using 25×150 binoculars. Hyakutake graduated from the Kyushu...
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    barycentre lies 1700 km below the Earth's surface (6370km–1700km) Olkin, C. B.; Young, L. A.; Borncamp, D.; et al. (January 2015). "Evidence that Pluto's...
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    Lis, D.C.; Young, K.; Keene, J.; Phillips, T.; Owen, T.; Crovisier, J.; Goldsmith, P.F. (May 1998). "Deuterated Water in Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and...
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    Michael J.; et al. (1996). "Detection of Abundant Ethane and Methane, Along with Carbon Monoxide and Water, in Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake: Evidence for Interstellar...
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    be approximately 5 km (3 mi). The nucleus is similar in size to Comet Hyakutake and many short-period comets such as 2P/Encke, 7P/Pons-Winnecke, 8P/Tuttle...
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    Kaminski, C.D.; D.X., Xie (1996). "Detection of Abundant Ethane and Methane, Along with Carbon Monoxide and Water, in Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake: Evidence...
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    expected to occur once every sixty million years. Comets Machholz 1 and Hyakutake C/1996 B2 are possible examples of such comets. They have atypical chemical...
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  • Despois, D.; Wootten, A. (May 1998), "Deuterated water in comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and its implications for the origin of comets" (PDF), Icarus, 133...
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  • Retrieved January 3, 2018. James, N.D. (1998). "Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake): The Great Comet of 1996". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 108:...
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    light-years) C/1999 F1 (Catalina) 66,600 AU (1.05 light-years) C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) 5700 AU (barycentric) Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) 3410 AU C/1910 A1 (Great...
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    Image of comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake), taken on 1996 March 25, with a 225 mm f/2.0 Schmidt camera (focal length 450 mm) on Kodak Technical Pan 6415 film...
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    Kaminski, C.D.; Xie, D.X. (1996). "Detection of Abundant Ethane and Methane, Along with Carbon Monoxide and Water, in Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake: Evidence...
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  • Comet C/2012 E2 (SWAN) was a Kreutz group sungrazing comet discovered by Vladimir Bezugly in publicly available images taken by the SWAN instrument (Solar...
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  • Almeida, A. A.; Boice, D. C.; Sanzovo, G. C. (March 2002). "Nitrogen Sulfide in Comets Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) and Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)". Earth, Moon, and...
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    faint Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) appeared very bright and spectacular due to its very close approach to Earth at its nearest during March 1996. Its passage...
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    J.; West, R. G. (11 October 1996). "Discovery of X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Emission from Comet C/Hyakutake 1996 B2". Science. 274 (5285): 205–209...
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  • C/1990 K1 (Levy) C/1992 J1 (Spacewatch–Rabinowitz) C/1993 Y1 (McNaught–Russell) C/1995 O1 (Hale–Bopp) C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) C/1997 L1 (Zhu–Balam) C/1998...
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    ISBN 0-297-81847-3, p. 198 Williams, John (1871). Observations of Comets: From 611 B.C. to A.D.1640 : Extracted from the Chinese Annals. Science and Technology....
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  • 1995/08/31 MPC · JPL C/1996 B1 Szczepanski 1965 0.99076 156.9 1.448788 51.9189 7.1 1996/02/06 MPC · JPL C/1996 B2 Comet Hyakutake 108000 0.9998987 2270...
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    31 July 2013. Lisse, C. M.; et al. (1996). "Discovery of X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Emission from Comet C/Hyakutake 1996 B2". Science. 274 (5285):...
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