<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale–Bopp" id="mwAYU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Comet Hale–Bopp">Comet Hale–Bopp</a> reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.<sup about="#mwt180" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-34"}}' id="cite_ref-34" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_22#cite_note-34" id="mwAYY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 34;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAYc">[34]</span></a></sup>
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