when was it discovered?
30 January 1996
Comet Hyakutake
30 January 1996
what is comet hyakutake? It is a comet. who discovered it? Yuji Hyakutake what is its orbit? It passes just 0.1 AU from Earth.
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Comet Hyakutake [SEP] Discovery
The comet was discovered on 30 January 1996, by Yuji Hyakutake, an amateur astronomer from southern Japan. He had been searching for comets for years and had moved to Kagoshima Prefecture partly for the dark skies in nearby rural areas. He was using a powerful set of binoculars with objective lenses to scan the skies on the night of the discovery. This comet was actually the second Comet Hyakutake; Hyakutake had discovered comet C/1995 Y1 several weeks earlier. While re-observing his first comet (which never became visible to the naked eye) and the surrounding patch of sky, Hyakutake was surprised to find another comet in almost the same position as the first had been.