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Astronomers Pinpoint Birth of Comet Hale-Bopp

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GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, June 21 -- A team of astrophysicists has produced the most precise measurement to date of a comet's ratio of carbon monoxide to water. As reported in the magazine Nature, the researchers, from the University of Notre Dame, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and Rowan College in New Jersey, determined that the carbon monoxide/water ratio of the comet Hale-Bopp is 12 percent. The group made their observations of the giant comet in 1997-1998 using an infrared spectrometer on NASA's three-meter telescope at the Infrared Telescope Facility at the Mauna Kea Observatory...Read full article

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