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COMET HALE-BOPP



 
Credit : OHP/CNRS


Comet Hale-Bopp has gone relatively far from the Earth, but it was a particularly large comet. This size reached several tens of kilometers while comets rarely exceed 4 km.

It offered us a splendid sight to the naked eye during the nights of March 1997.