Comet Hale-Bopp

HK may enjoy rare astronomical event: newspaper

15 Apr 2004

Updated at 12.53pm:
Hong Kong might experience a rare astronomical event next month - when two visible comets appear together over the territory, the Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Your opportunity to see Hale-Bopp

7 Apr 1997

Comet Hale-Bopp, believed to be the most brilliant comet of the century - which will not return for about 3,000 years - has grabbed the attention of star-lovers all over the world.

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End the world and foil the handover

5 Apr 1997

Sorry. Don't like to interrupt, but have you seen this? It's in that respected journal the New Scientist. It can't be ascribed to superstition if it's in there, you know. Only the top people and...

3:59PM

Stargazers go comet crazy

3 Apr 1997

Alien spaceships, cult followers in a mass suicide pact, castrations and apocalyptic predictions: what is it about the Comet Hale-Bopp? During the current fortnight hundreds of astronomers will...

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Comets of the century star in new sky show

10 Feb 1997

In the ancient world comets symbolised catastrophe as their appearance was often accompanied by calamities such as pestilence, famine and wars.

Today, however, comets are no longer...

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1997 flyby for bright new comet

4 Sep 1995

A COMET brighter than the 1986 return of Halley's is expected to storm across Hong Kong skies in late spring of 1997 - forming a bad omen just before the handover.

Chinese see comets...

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