ocr: Copyright: 9 : Por pperfotol After around aquarter: ora century of being considered no more than a group of eccentrics, the drastic end of the Heaven's Gate cult came aboutas a result, of the discovery of the comet Hale-Bopp inJuly 1995The comet sparkedthe interest of amateur astronomers and onelofthem:Chuck Shramek, tooka photograph which seemed toshow asecond object travelling with Hale-Bopp. Shramek believed itwasa spaceship and this idea, together with the photo, radiated round the world via the Internet and through the media. Heaven's Gate, considered this ship to be the means by which th ...