Decrease font size Increase font size Print this page Français

Discoveries > Comets VI

COMET HYAKUTAKE 



 
Credit : Pic du Midi/CNRS/IMCCE


During its passage near the Earth in 1996 observations showed the detachment of a large block of the comet Hyakutake.

It is all these fragments of comets extracted by solar radiation which forms the shooting stars.