... comet's breakup SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE NEWS RELEASE Posted: April 27 ... comets," says planetary astronomer Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University ... this comet during a photographic search for asteroids in 1930, when the comet passed ...
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