# Newly discovered comet could outshine the moon in 2013

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**Created:** [December 30, 2012, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-discovered-comet-could-outshine-the-moon-in-2013/645606 "2012-12-30T22:12:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-discovered-comet-could-outshine-the-moon-in-2013/645606/41 "2013-01-06T16:36:00Z")

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> [@Tamex](#):
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> I think Halley’s Comet was a bust for me, too, and I did live in the sticks back then. \<snip\>.

According to the [Portal 2 Fact Core;](http://youngmelonworld.blogspot.com/2011/05/fun-facts-from-fact-sphere.html?m=1)

> [@Portal 2 Fact Sphere](#):
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> "Halley’s Comet can be viewed orbiting Earth every seventy-six years. For the other seventy-five, it retreats to the heart of the Sun, where it hibernates undisturbed

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**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-discovered-comet-could-outshine-the-moon-in-2013/645606/42 "2013-01-07T01:18:50Z")

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I was only three y.o. for West. I was vacationing in Phoenix during Hale Bopp, and was absolutely thrilled to view an awesome sight in the dark, clear desert rather than the hazy city night lit sky of my home near Detroit.

I was 11 during Haley’s, couldn’t see it, and I was up north in the woods that time. I’ll be 87 next time I get the chance.

Here’s hoping for best. (Both for a new bright comet, and I’ll be around come Haley’s next swing)

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**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newly-discovered-comet-could-outshine-the-moon-in-2013/645606/43 "2013-01-15T21:59:33Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Yup, Hale Bop ruled. Was that the one where all the nut cases killed themselves so they could get on the mother headed to it?

Nut cases?? I’ll have you know I’m posting from Mother Hale-Bopp right at this instant.

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