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Two waves of Great Comets were to sweep across twentieth-century skies. The four decades separating these waves saw tremendous advances in science and astronomy, and humanity finally got to see comets up-close through the eyes of space probes.
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Grego, P. (2014). Comets in Plain View: Great Comets of the Twentieth Century. In: Blazing a Ghostly Trail. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01775-4_6
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