Comet Kohoutek. Kohoutek is a long period comet that will not appear again for 75,000 years. It attained perihelion on 26th December 1973 and is named

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Comet Kohoutek. Kohoutek is a long period comet that will not appear again for 75,000 years. It attained perihelion on 26th December 1973 and is named after Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek, who first sighted the comet on 7th March 1973. Photographed from the Catalina Observatory, USA, on 11th january 1974.

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