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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Great Comet of 1861
		The Great Comet of 1861 (formally designated C/1861 J1) was a comet that was visible to the naked eye for approximately 3 months.
		It was categorized as a Great Comet, one of eight in the 19th century.
		Comet Hale-Bopp A comet is a small body in the solar system that orbits the sun and (at least occasionally) exhibits a coma (or atmosphere) and/or a tail â€” both due primarily to the effects of solar radiation upon the comets nucleus, which itself is a minor planet...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Comet-of-1861 (722 words)

	The Great Comets of 1996 and 1997
		The Comet Observations Home Page at JPL has up-to-date information on all comets visible to amateurs (with telescopes 16" or less) including collections of observer reports, ephemerides, finder charts, etc. Go here to find out about the next "Instant Comet" before it is too late.
		This comet is still being observed and is still producing jets that produce the "pinwheel" appearance that is the hallmark of this comet.
		In the Hale-Bopp encounter, the truly great "comet flap" was the story of the Saturn Shaped UFO near Hale-Bopp.
	www.io.com /~iareth/comet.html (1216 words)

	Great Comets in History
		An active comet can only become great by making a particularly close approach to the sun so that it produces enormous quantities of gas and dust or by making a close approach to the Earth so that its tail can be easily viewed.
		With the single exception of periodic comet Halley, all the tabulated comets have passed through the inner solar system either for the first time or the intervals between their returns are measured in thousands or millions of years.
		This comet passed very close to the sun and is perhaps the progenitor of the sungrazing comets of 1882 and 1965 or that of 1843.
	ssd.jpl.nasa.gov /?great_comets (844 words)

	Great Comet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Great Comet is a comet which becomes particularly bright and spectacular.
		This means that the peak brightness of a comet depends significantly on its distance from the sun.
		Comet Halley, for example, is usually very bright when it passes through the inner solar system every 76 years, but during its 1986 apparition, its closest approach to earth was almost the most distant possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Comet (567 words)

	SPACE.com -- The Great Comet of 2007: Watch it on the Web
		Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in our skies in more than 30 years, has been putting on a spectacular show in the eastern sky at dawn and the western sky at dusk this week.
		As more observations of the comet arrived, however, Marsden refined its orbit, and on Aug. 11, he announced that it was likely to pass well within the Earth's orbit-a distance of just 15.9 million miles (25.6 million kilometers)-today.
		The comet went unobserved for nearly six weeks but was successfully recovered in the twilight toward the end of December.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/070112_ns_comet_mcnaught.html (1813 words)

	Halley's Comet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The comet's appearance in 1066 was recorded on the Bayeux Tapestry.
		The 1986 approach was the least favourable for Earth observers of all recorded passages of the comet throughout history: the comet did not achieve the spectacular brightness of some previous approaches, and with increased light pollution from urbanization, many people never saw the comet at all.
		Comet Halley is the parent body of several meteor showers - associated with the orbit of the comet inbound, and outbound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comet_Halley (1954 words)

	Comet, Comets, Halleys Comet at SPACE.com
		Comets are unique because they are created in the outer solar system, and are greatly affected by the planets they pass.
		The tail of a comet is actually called the coma, which is composed of gas and dust streams.
		While Short period comets orbit for 200 years or less, long period comets are bound by gravity to the sun, and remain much longer.
	www.space.com /comets (338 words)

	SPACE.com -- 40 Years Ago: A Great Comet
		In Japan the comet was described as appearing "10 times brighter than the full Moon." In addition, a "disruption" of the comet was observed, its nucleus apparently fracturing into two or three pieces.
		While the comet's head faded rapidly, the tail continued to be visible well into November even as the comet moved rapidly away from the Sun.
		Comet Ikeya-Seki is moving in an extremely long, narrow elliptical orbit, whose period roughly corresponds to 600-years.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/051021_nightsky_friday.html (1439 words)

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	C&MS: C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)
		The comet continued its brightening early in 1997 as it became a nighttime object that could not be ignored for the next four months, first appearing in the morning sky and then in the evening.
		Sadly, the excitement of the comet was somewhat tempered on March 26, when 39 members of the Heaven's Gate religious cult committed suicide in California believing this would release their souls so that a spaceship they thought was hidden within the comet would take them to the afterlife.
		The comet's magnitude faded to 4.3-4.4 by the end of August, 4.9-5.3 by the end of September, 5.9-6.4 by the end of October, 6.9 by the end of November, and 7.6 by the end of December.
	cometography.com /lcomets/1995o1.html (2022 words)

	NASA Swift Satellite Offers a Different View of the Great Comet Collision
		The collision briefly lit the dim comet's surface and exposed, for the first time, a section of ancient and virgin material from the comet's interior.
		Comets are small astronomical objects usually in highly elliptical orbits around the sun.
		Comet Tempel 1 is about the size of Washington, D.C. Some scientists say that comets crashing into Earth billions of years ago brought water to our planet.
	www.physorg.com /news4943.html (894 words)

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		Comet Hale-Bopp, with a star-like head, became visible to the unaided eye in the evening through April when the sky was clear.
		Unlike meteorites, which streak across the sky as "shooting stars," comets do not appear to the eye to move at all.
		NASA's "Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer" has links to a lot of good information, including diagrams showing when Hale-Bopp has been visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/whalebop.htm (359 words)

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	Charles Armstrong / The Great Comet of June, 1881, pl. XI from a portfolio of astronomical observations / 19th - 20th ...
		Charles Armstrong / The Great Comet of June, 1881, pl. XI from a portfolio of astronomical observations / 19th - 20th century
		The Great Comet of June, 1881, pl. XI from a portfolio of astronomical observations
		Title: The Great Comet of June, 1881, pl. XI from a portfolio of astronomical observations
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico114208-58126.html (322 words)

	Comet hunter Tsutomu Seki's web-page[Top]
		• A list of comets discovered by Tsutomu Seki.
		Comet Seki-Lines (1962 C1) was discovered on February 4, 1962, my second comet discovery.
		Tsutomu Seki and the Great Comet of 1965
	www.comet-web.net /~tsutomu-seki (109 words)

	Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
		2006 August 13: The Comet and the Galaxy
		2005 September 15: The Nucleus of Comet Tempel 1
		2004 January 31: A Galaxy is not a Comet
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/archivepix.html (9175 words)

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