C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
The discovery of Hyakutake’s second comet On January 30, 1996 the Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake left his house in
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Comet reports
A place for reports on brighter comets.
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Needs to be updated!Draft Guidelines for Comet Discoveries General discovery procedures If you think you have found a comet, first
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Comet C/2013 US10 on its way to our skies
This news item is based on BAA Circular No. 835 which logged-in members can download here. C/2013 US10 was discovered
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This needs to be updated BAA Journal The majority of Comet Section papers appear in the BAA Journal. This list
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History of the BAA Comet Section
This history is taken from the BAA Memoirs: ‘The First Fifty Years’ and ‘The Second Fifty Years’. Directors: 1891 –
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