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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1997
Page
11
Amateur astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp discovered the comet Hale Bopp on July 23, 1995. They reported the discovery to the registering observatory, earning their names on the comet. Hale found it with a driveway telescope in New Mexico, while Bopp used a friend’s telescope at an astronomy club event in Arizona.
The piece explains Halley’s Comet naming after Edmund Halley not first seen by him, noting centuries of visits and his 1682 sighting predicting 1759 return. It covers comet basics including nucleus coma solar wind and tail, with early notes about a US librarian helping mapping skies for the Coast Guard.
A simple guide explains comet structure with a nucleus dust crust and gas jets when near the sun. It notes Hale Bopp’s exceptional brightness from bursts and a huge glowing coma. Comets have varied orbits about 3 years to thousands of years and speeds peak near perihelion.
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