Alan Hale, Sky Watcher Who Created a Comet Sensation, Dies at 68
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Alan Hale, Sky Watcher Who Created a Comet Sensation, Dies at 68
Alan Hale, who wheeled a telescope out of his New Mexico garage on July 23, 1995, and spotted a fuzzy object in the constellation Sagittarius, discovering what may be the most-viewed comet in human history — known as Hale-Bopp, after Dr. Hale and Thomas Bopp, another sky watcher who saw it the same night — died on June 6 at his home in Cloudcroft, N.M. He was 68. The cause has yet to be determined, though Dr. Hale had experienced complications f…
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