Overview xiii COMETS IN PERSON 1 A Comet Passes 3 COMETS IN GENERAL
2 Anatomy of a Ghost 27 3 Dirty Snowballs and the Nurseries of
Leviathans 51 4 The Spectacular Deaths of Comets 61 5 Swords of
Damocles 86 6 Observing and Discovering Comets 110 HALLEY AND THE
SHORT PERIOD COMETS 7 Halley and Its Periodic Kin 133 8 Through the
Ages with Halley's Comet 157 COMETS WILD 9 What Makes a Comet
Great? 197 10 The Comets Before 1700 204 11 The Comets from 1700 to
1995 229 vii viii COMET OF THE CENTURY THE LATEST GREATS 12 The
Grand Approach of Comet Hale-Bopp 273 13 Hyakutake Lightning 291 14
A Narrative Calendar for Observing Hale-Bopp 305 15 Comet of the
Century 328 Appendix A: Periodic Comet Numbers 331 Appendix B:
Great Comets in History 335 AppendixC: Closest Comets in History
339 Appendix D: Celestial Coordinates 344 Appendix E: Orbital
Elements 346 Appendix F: Comet Brightness Formula and Estimating
Brightness 348 AppendixG: How to Report a Comet Discovery 351
AppendixH: Ephemeris for Comet Hale-Bopp 354 Glossary 359 Sources
of Information 367 Credits 371 Generaiindex 373 Comet Index 381
PRtl7ACt This book may be loaded with a richness of facts, but what
it's about, through and through, is simple and blazing: the way
comets, throughout history, and up to the present, have stirred the
human spirit.
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