Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) |
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Authors: | Mark R. Kidger |
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Affiliation: | (1) Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain |
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Abstract: | Considerable interest has been raised by the discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) and the possibility that it might become a very bright object in Spring 1997. The evidence to support either of the conflicting hypothesis (an intrinsically bright comet or a faint comet in a very large outburst) is too limited to reach solid conclusions and may remain so for some months yet. The pre-discovery observations encountered to date provide some limits to photometric models and suggest that the comet may be intrinsically bright, but do not yet permit a firm discrimination, even between extreme scenarios, due to the enormous extrapolation that must be made from the heliocentric distance at discovery, to that of perihelion. |
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Keywords: | Comets named objects Comet Hale-Bopp (199501) photometry |
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