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Comet Kohoutek Seen as Dirty Snowball by Astronomers
In Cambridge AP reports astronomers describe comet Kohoutek as a dirty snowball composed of gases, ice, dust, and rock. They compare its makeup to a solar system building kit and note a vast cloud of such bodies may exist at the solar system fringe, per Dutch astronomer Jan Oort.
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Kohoutek
Earth
Solar System
Jan Oort
Fred Whipple
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Harvard University
Lubos Kohoutek
Hamburg Observatory
West Germany
Brian Marsden
Smithsonian Observatory
Halley
Marsden
cAs Marsden
Comet Encke
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