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Hale-Bopp Comet Facts - Space.com  Feb 22, 2013 ... But it also "inspired" the Heaven's Gate cult's mass suicide. ... Comet C/1995 O1 HaleBopp, which shone in the night sky in 1997. ... websites containing information on Hale-Bopp; they are attracting so many visitors that they are causing a traffic jam on the Internet," Scientific American wrote in March 1997.
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The Saga of Comet Hale-Bopp and its Fugacious Companion, Part 1  Mar 1, 2015 ... And I listened to SO many hours of Coast to Coast AM for this that ... The third part will be about the Heaven's Gate cult suicide and the ... A dismal report is circulating to the effect that Halley's comet is about to cause the destruction of our ... Hale-Bopp did end up changing course, as I discussed in my first...
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Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide 15 years ago - Daily Mail  Mar 26, 2012 ... March 26, 1997 brought the grizzly discovery that 39 members of the ... their souls would be transported to a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. ... Horror: All 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed suicide were ... that outside intervention, not internal pressure, caused violence in cults.
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J! Archive - Show #3258, aired 1998-11-04  My heavens! This comet caused a lot of excitement in March of 1997. $400, 6. The heartthrob in the 1953 film "Titanic" wasn't Leonardo...
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Signs that Seem to Point to Great Tribulation on 4/11/12 - Five Doves  Mar 1, 2012 ... Below is part of a revised letter that I wrote in March, 2009. ... In 1996 and 1997, something happened that caused a whole lot of excitement ... Comet Hyatuke crossed these coordinates in the sky on APRIL 11, 1996, and comet ... The events in the heavens, just as Jesus predicted, seem to be showing to us...
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Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 - Wikipedia  Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, ... These fragments collided with Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 .... extremely high probability that SL9 would collide with Jupiter in July 1994. ...... Create a book  Download as PDF  Printable version...
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Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 - Wikipedia  Comet ShoemakerLevy 9 was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, ... These fragments collided with Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 and July 22, 1994 at a ... The volume of space within which an object can be said to orbit Jupiter is defined by Jupiter's Hill sphere (also...
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BAA Comet Section : Periodic Comets 1 - 99  The HCN J(4-3) transition was observed during Nov 9-11 UT at the James Clerk Maxwell .... If these are from the same jet, it implies a rotation period of 4.9 - 5.0 hours. ... The 2000 return was an unfavourable one and no observations were made. ..... who first computed a linked orbit for comets seen in 1818, 1873 and 1928.
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The First Predicted Return of Comet Halley  Date Language Where it appeared (or title) Where published 1705 Latin ... Li 1i3-Tttt4 1757 English A compendious view of the astronomy of comets ... written ... to predict the return of the [comet] in 1758, gave way to the English version in the ... now a help to him in interpreting the motion of the comets more thoroughly.
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Halley's Comet: Facts About the Most Famous Comet - Space.com  Feb 20, 2013 ... (The traditional pronunciation of the name usually rhymes with valley.) ... This portion of the Bayeux Tapestry shows Halley's Comet during its...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Jan 8, 2012 ... On Nov. 14, 1867 there were meteor showers & this volcano near Naples erupted. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Alex Trebek. Springfield...
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Genesis Revisited - 04  The three comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 were unusual in that they were all ... Concluding they were one and the same comet, he plotted its course and...
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What Is A Comet? | Germany | DW.COM | 26.02.2004 - Deutsche Welle  Despite all the information scientists have gathered on comets in the last ... Incidentally, the word for comet comes from stella cometa, Latin for "hairy star. ... Hyakutake, a comet that was visible from Earth in 1996, returns every 10,000 years or so. ... In 1992, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was torn into 21 large fragments as it...
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March 1999 - The American Association of Amateur Astronomers  Mar 2, 1999 ... February, as the two bright planets Jupiter and Venus danced ... inch Meade S/C and an ST7 CCD camera. Needless to say, we are very ..... I was able to snap off three Herschel ... planetary nebulae, because they always look like stars until you .... see a happy face in a hood. .... Learn a few crater names.
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DISCOVERY ::: Small Worlds ::: The Neighborhood - Page 5  The nucleus of Halley's Comet, taken by the Giotto probe in 1986. ... to the comet's nucleus, showing it to be a dark peanut-shaped body, 9 miles long by 6 miles wide. ... This image shows the 5-mile long nucleus from over 2,000 miles away.
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Hale-Bopp Comet Facts - Space.com  Feb 22, 2013 ... Comet Hale-Bopp put on a spectacular show when it swung around the sun in the late 1990s. ... Cloud to pass near the Earth before returning to its distant home. ... in the late 1990s, reaching its closest approach to the planet in 1997. ... Hale-Bopp was probably one of the most viewed comets in history.
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When Comet Fragments Struck Jupiter - NASA  Nov 30, 2004 ... Hubble Close-up of Bright Nucleus in Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 ... with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC), in PC mode, on July 1, 1993. ... However, even with these new size estimates, the total energy of the July 1994 ... comet discovered by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.
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Caesar's Comet - Wikipedia  Caesar's Comet (numerical designation C/-43 K1)  also known as Comet Caesar and the Great Comet of 44 BC  was perhaps the most famous comet of antiquity. Its seven-day visitation was interpreted by Romans as a sign of the deification of recently assassinated dictator, Julius Caesar (10044 BC).
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Assignment 3  a. a brilliant comet in 1601 blazed across the sky and was seen to cross in front .... ____ 17. To come up with the precise mathematical form of his law of gravity,...
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Halley's Comet: CQR  November 25, 1985 ... Halley's Comet is not just any celestial streaker. .... paths across the sky, like planets and stars, but comets appeared randomly and moved in no apparent pattern. .... Halley's appearance in 1066 was associated with William of .... if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758,...
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Comet HaleBopp - Wikipedia  Comet HaleBopp is a comet that was perhaps the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades ... Hale first established that there was no other deep-sky object near M70, and then consulted ... As it passed perihelion on April 1, 1997 the comet developed into a spectacular sight.