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Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. [1] It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996 ; its passage to within 0.1 AU (15 Gm) of the Earth on 25 March was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years.
Estimated time for Comet Hyakutake to return to the inner Solar System, after having travelled in its orbit out to its aphelion 3410 A.U. from the Sun and back. [159] 93,830 AD Sirius becomes once again the South Star, but at 2.3° of the south celestial pole. [158] March 27 and 28, 224,508 AD Respectively, Venus and then Mercury will transit ...
Hyakutake was the first comet I ever saw. Alleged to have been more impressive than Comet Hale-Bopp when it was at its brightest, it broke a 20 year drought of Great Comets, and turned up some very surprising results for cometary scientists. I've been working on this article over the last few weeks and I think it's near enough comprehensive now ...
A comet that orbits the Sun every 160,000 years will appear in the night sky this week, offering a rare chance. The Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is expected to be the brightest comet in nearly 20 years ...
Yuji Hyakutake (百武 裕司, Hyakutake Yūji, July 7, 1950, Shimabara, Nagasaki – April 10, 2002, Kokubu, Kagoshima) was a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet C/1996 B2, also known as Comet Hyakutake on January 31, 1996, while using 25×150 binoculars.
Comet Hyakutake (Japanese: 百武彗星 Hyakutake suisei pronounced [çjakɯtake sɯiseː] I'd have to understand it to mean that "Comet Hyakutake" is an English translation of the Japanese "百武彗星". But we all know the truth is not so. It is a comet, named after the discoverer, Mr. Hyakutake, whose name is written 百武 in Japanese.
The nucleus is similar in size to Comet Hyakutake and many short-period comets such as 2P/Encke, 7P/Pons-Winnecke, 8P/Tuttle, 14P/Wolf, and 19P/Borrelly. [18] By July 5, NASA's Parker Solar Probe had captured an image of the comet, from which astronomers also estimated the diameter of the comet nucleus at approximately 5 km (3 mi). [19]
Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Hyakutake may refer to: Astronomy. Comet Hyakutake, a comet discovered in 1996; People Gengo Hyakutake (1882–1976), Imperial ...