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11, 1996 - NASA's Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page is a site not to be missed if you're looking for
information on the comet of the same name, which is due to make its closest
approach to Earth on March 22, 1997 and its closest approach to the sun
ten days later on April 1. Here you'll find an ephemeris for the comet
(in right ascension/declination only) for September 10, 1996 to January
18, 1998. Images abound on this site. As of November 10, 1996 I counted
136 static images (.GIFs and .JPEGs) and 10 animations (mostly MPEGs) -
with more sure to follow. At an estimated 18-25 miles across, Hale-Bopp
is larger than Hyakutake, larger even than Halley's, and bound to be a
newsmaker in 1997. With lots of information in its own right, and links
to plenty more, the NASA Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page is a good place to start
getting a handle on this newest celestial visitor.
