Hyakutake
(#72848031)
Level 1 Snapper
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Energy: 47/50
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
4.16 m
Wingspan
2.83 m
Weight
5559.31 kg
Genetics
Fire
Tapir
Tapir
Cantaloupe
Facet
Facet
Orange
Smirch
Smirch
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Snapper
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
5
AGI
8
DEF
5
QCK
6
INT
8
VIT
5
MND
8
Biography
Comet Hyakutake is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996; its passage to within 0.1 AU (15 Gm) of the Earth on 25 March was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years. Reaching an apparent visual magnitude of zero and spanning nearly 80°, Hyakutake appeared very bright in the night sky and was widely seen around the world.
The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time.
Hyakutake is a long-period comet that passed perihelion on 1 May 1996.
This is the first comet to have an X-ray emission detected, which is most likely the result of ionised solar wind particles interacting with neutral atoms in the coma of the comet. The Ulysses spacecraft fortuitously crossed the comet's tail at a distance of more than 500 million km (3.3 AU; 310 million mi) from the nucleus, showing that Hyakutake had the longest tail known for a comet.
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