The Great Comet of 1997

Hale-Bopp

What the Hale is really going on?

In the summer of 1995, two amateur astronomers independently and accidentally discovered a new comet. Like nearly all comets, this new comet was named after its discoverers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp. But unlike most comets which are discovered 3 or 4 months prior to their closest approach to the earth and sun, this comet was found about 20 months before its closest approach - absolutely unprecedented! The comet is no threat to the earth, at its closest, it will still be as far away as the sun, yet there are some very strange and weird aspects to this comet which officials seem reluctant to tell us about or discuss.

This is a picture of Hale-Bopp taken in early October of 1995 through the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The comet itself is shown in the top part of the picture, that bright area below the head of the comet is a chunk (to use NASA's words) that broke off from the comet. NASA however failed to point out that at this distance from the sun (past the orbit of Jupiter) there were no gravitational tidal forces from the sun to break 'chunks' off a comet. Nor was it hot enough for a 'chunk' to break off. In fact, at this enormous distance from the sun, even the Hubble should not have been able to see a 'normal' comet at all. For the complete NASA released frame of this picture and the original it was processed from, click here.

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Speaking of this Hubble picture, a visitor to this web site sent me his interpretation it. His high contrast color reprocess on the picture along with his measurements give compelling evidence that the bright spot was not a chunk ejected from the comet, but rather it appears the comet is orbiting the chunk! Notice the head of the comet, and its tail all maintain an equal distance from the 'chunk.' From this it would appear that the comet is only part of the story. Could it be a comet orbitting something larger and both are coming this way?

Hubble was scheduled to view Hale-Bopp in May, June, July, August, September and October of 1996. How come the most recent picture of Hale-Bopp that's been released to the public is from October of 1995?

Still no good explanation for this one:

Hale-Bopp's Mysterious Eyes!

While Hubble and major observatories are not revealing recent pictures some astronomers in New Mexico took these shots on the evening of July 23, 1996 (exactly 1 year to the day after Mr. Hale and Mr. Bopp discovered the comet.) They reveal that Hale-Bopp's nucleus apparently divided! Theories that this could have been a background star or a flaw in their imager have been rejected. To see more of this and read the story go to:http://www.halebopp.com/z05eyes.htm

Still Skeptical??

The simplest way I have to show skeptics they are hiding something about Hale-Bopp is to compare these two JPL sites:

Hale-Bopp image archive: http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/images.html

(notice they "accidentally" deleted a bunch of images. They promised they'd be restored soon, but that promise was made in May of 1996!!! Also notice the number of images gets smaller each month and trail off completely in May.)

Hyakutake image archive: http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/hyakutake/

(nothing to hide here, you can find over 1000 images of this comet, even though it's not nearly as big as Hale-Bopp!!)

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