HELLO, HYAKUTAKE\'Great Comet of 1996' nears Earth.(News)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: March 19, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Tony Knight Daily News Staff Writer

A big ball of ice and dirt that astronomers already are calling the "Great Comet of 1996" is heading toward a close pass with Earth next week, but earthlings won't have to wait another day to see it.

Comet Hyakutake already can be seen with the unaided eye looming faintly above the horizon in the southwest, astronomers with the Griffith Observatory said Monday.

The comet could be the brightest to pass Earth in 20 years and could sprout a tail by late April that stretches a quarter of the way across the sky, astronomers ...

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