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Comet Hyakutake

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Photographs by Fred Espenak

In March 1996, the recently discovered Comet Hyakutake passed within just 9.5 million miles of Earth. Such a close approach gave us a fantastic front row seat of this deep sky voyager as before it swung around the Sun and left the inner Solar System. For a few night, the bright naked-eye comet was seen near the "Big Dipper". its glowing tail stretching nearly half way across the sky.

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HY96-211
HY96-211w.JPG 		HY96-108-2
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(tail disconection)		 HY96-113
HY96-113w.JPG 		HY96-116
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HY96-108
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with "Big Dipper"		 HY96-219
HY96-219w.JPG 		HY96-213
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