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On the evening of November 6, 1892, English amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes was observing the Great Andromeda Galaxy when he noticed a peculiar blob of nebulosity having a similar brightness, close to it. Clearly this was a new comet, but it was strange that such a bright object in so readily accessible a region of the heavens was not reported well before it had become so conspicuous. Holmes’ discovery was quickly followed by a cluster of independent discoveries from all over the world, so the failure to find it earlier was not because nobody was out there looking! (Fig. 4.1).
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Seargent, D.A.J. (2017). More Comet Oddities: Outbursts, Disruptions and Other Strange Behavior. In: Weird Comets and Asteroids. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56558-3_4
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