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HALE -
BOPP
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HALE -
BOPP (C1995 O1)
210mm
f/3.5 20 Minutes on Fujicolor SG800 Plus Camera
piggybacked on 12" SCT Image taken on April 4, 1997
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Co-discovered
July 22, 1995 by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp
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Closest
approach to Earth was 120 million miles (March 22, 1997)
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Rate
of speed (then) was nearly 97,000 mph relative to the sun
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Yellowish
tail is dust grains being spewed at 400 metric tons per SECOND
plus an additional 90 metric tons of water per second
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Blue
tail is ionized CO2
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Nucleus
is approximately 18 miles wide
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It
will return in about 2400 years
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