Comet Hale-Bopp

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Comet Hale-Bopp [¦käm·ət ¦hāl ′bäp]

(astronomy)

A very large comet which was discovered on July 23, 1995, and reached perihelion on April 1, 1997, when its brightness was magnitude -1.

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