NEW COMET LIKELY TO BE EASY TO SEE ITS BRIGHT HEAD IS AT LEAST 25 MILES ACROSS.(FRONT)

From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: January 26, 1997| Author: Peters, Mason | Copyright information

Byline: MASON PETERS, STAFF WRITER

Comet-hunting astronomers are like weekend fishermen - everything they catch is big, bigger or biggest, with each new skylight heading our way touted as likely to surpass the one that came before.

So it is with Comet Hale-Bopp, already heralded by some scientists as one of this century's potentially great cosmic displays. Most astronomers agree that the 1997 comet is going to leave a trail of superlatives in the next three m...

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