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Comet Hyakutake

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 of the Earth on 25 March was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years. Wikipedia
Discovered: January 31, 1996
Discoverer: Yuji Hyakutake
Radius: 0.77671 mi
Last perihelion: May 1, 1996
Aphelion: ~1320 AU (inbound); ~3500 AU (outbound)
Eccentricity: 0.9998946
Inclination: 124.92246°