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What comet pushed the members of the cult Heaven's Gate to commit mass suicide in 1997?

Tempel–Tuttle

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Hale-Bopp

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Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. In March 1997, 39 of their members committed mass suicide with the intention of teleporting to a spaceship they believed was flying behind the Comet Hale–Bopp.

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What was the most beautiful comet of the second half of the twentieth century, with two tails visible to the naked eye?

Comet Hale-Bopp

There was no such comet

What direction does the comet tail made of gases point?

opposite to comet's movement direction

away from the Sun

towards the nearest planet

in a random direction

What comet is believed to be the originator of the Taurids meteor showers?

29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann

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