Comet Hyakutake.Describes comet Hyakutake, discovered by Japanese astronomer Yuji Hyakutake in January 1996. Photographs of the comet; Size; Composition.EBSCO_AspMercury
Also in 1996 the ROSAT satellite (see X-ray astronomy) detected X-rays emanating from the Comet Hyakutake. This was completely unexpected, and can be explained by no known mechanism. Observation of more large comets passing through the solar system by orbiting X-ray observatories will be ...
Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) was observed with the BIMA array at a wavelength of 2.7 mm. An upper limit of 6.3 mJy per beam is reported, which, if all due to thermal emission from the nucleus of the comet itself, translates into an upper limit of 2.5 km for the comet's radius. The...
What matters most is how much dust and gas the comet produces and how close it approaches to the Sun. Many spectacular comets in the past had nuclei much smaller than Comet ISON’s. Perfect examples are Comet Lovejoy, which was just 400 feet (120 meters) across, or Comet Hyakutake, 2.6...
The apparitions of two bright comets, C/Hyakutake and C/Hale–Bopp in 1995 and 1996, had provided new information on the chemical compositions of long-period comets. This was particularly opportune because of the availability of several advanced radio telescopes and the operation of the Infrared ...
When Comet Hyakutake was discovered in 1996, astronomers determined that on the way in to our solar system it had an estimated periodicy of 17,000 years, yet after having its orbit disturbed by the largest planets, its new course meant it would take between 72,000 and 114,000 years to ...
When Comet Hyakutake was discovered in 1996, astronomers determined that on the way in to our solar system it had an estimated periodicy of 17,000 years, yet after having its orbit disturbed by the largest planets, its new course meant it would take between 72,000 and 114,000 years to ...
In 1996, we had a visit from the comparatively minor comet Hyakutake (pronounced Ya-ku-tacky). That was like a glass of beer. Some folk hardly noticed it. Other, more sensitive souls got very giddy for a while. You may recall that in 1994 I said a lot about Shoemaker Levy 9. ...
Interestingly, 2061 is the mirror-image of the comet's last appearance in the winter/early spring of 1986. Back then, the comet was out of sight and on the opposite side of the sun in midwinter; but in midsummer of 2061 the comet will be on the same side of the sun as us, in fu...
while 2I/Borisov’s nucleus size is ≤0.4 km43,59. The close similarity between the polarimetric behaviour of the comet 2I/Borisov and Hale-Bopp suggests that, whatever astrophysical environment in which comet 2I/Borisov originated in, such environment had properties which led to the formati...