Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2)

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Oct 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001eaa..booke2167c&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2167. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Comets

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Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) was discovered on 30 January 1996 by the Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. (It should not to be mistaken for another `comet Hyakutake' discovered by the same person 5 weeks before, C/1995 Y1, which was much less spectacular.) It was soon found out that comet Hyakutake was to make a close approach to Earth on 25 March 1996, at only 0.102 AU (15 300 000 km). It...

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