Discovered on January 30, 1996 by an amateur astronomer from southern Japan, Comet Hyakutake (pronounced "hyah-koo-tah-kay,") came 13 times closer to the Earth than Hale-Bopp. There were two ...
Other notable flybys included Neowise in 2020, and Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake in the mid to late 1990s. Where did comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas come from? The comet, also designated C/2023 A3, was ...