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...fiery visitor is called Kohoutek (after its discoverer, Czech Astronomer Luboš Kohoutek- pronounced Loo-bosh Ko-hoe-tek); it promises to rival and perhaps surpass in brightness Halley's comet, which last appeared in 1910 and will not be seen again until 1986. By the time Kohoutek emerges from its passage behind the sun early in January, its tail should be full grown, a glittering streamer extending across as much as a sixth of the evening sky. There is some chance that Kohoutek will not live up to all its billing - comets are notoriously unpredictable. Some split into...
...when it will appear in the morning sky. By early January, its tail-formed when the gases boiling off the comet are swept away from the sun by charged solar particles-may stretch across one-sixth of the evening sky. In fact, Kohoutek may glow many times brighter than Halley's comet, which blazed across...
Even now it is hurtling closer, racing toward a year-end rendezvous with the sun. By December it will be the brightest object in the predawn sky, providing early risers with an unusual celestial display. The newly discovered comet may eventually be 50 times as brilliant as Halley's comet, which last dazzled the world in 1910; its tail could arc across some 30°-or one-sixth-of the evening sky. With no effort at hyperbole, Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple says the onrushing giant "may well be the comet of the century...
...March by Czech-born Astronomer Luboš Kohoutek while he was looking for asteroids with the Hamburg Observatory's 31-in. Schmidt telescope; at that time it was some 480 million miles away from the sun, or roughly in the vicinity of the orbit of Jupiter. In contrast, Halley's comet-less bright than Kohoutek's-was not spotted until it was about 170 million miles closer to the sun. Although the nucleus of a typical comet (which is thought to be composed of frozen water, methane and ammonia, as well as dust particles) is only about...
...Wheels. Halley...