Well an comet is made of something you would never think of. A comet is made up mostly of ice. People call it durty ice because it has fragment of different rocks and particels. You would never think that something that travels at extensive speeds and catches on fire to be ice. The trail that follows the comet is froth from the ice on the comet. The tale does not acctually follow the comet but it shoots out perpendicular to the comet's path As you can see from our background picture the froth from the comet shots perpendicular to the comet. Speed is not the word for how fast this comet travels.
This comet travels so fast that it was supposed to come back in 4200 years but it is coming back in 2380 years. You do the math that is 1920 years earlier that it is supposed too. If you missed it the last time it came around don't miss it the next time, just kidding. When you see this comet you might think that this comet is sectacular, but same people see it as a supernatural phanomenon.
Heavan's Gate was one of the illmannered groups that use the Hale-Bopp as an religious symbal. This group claimed that God was an alien and that the comet would take them to their maker. The way they are supposed to reach to the comet is that they would have to kill them selves. As a result, many people died.
The Hale-Bopp is a beautiful comet if you can forget all the bad things but just think about all the amazimg things. This comet is a very intersting comet to study. Too bad for the people who missed it. All we can do now is look at pictures that and ask about the memories that it left behind.
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