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Kohoutek

Comet discovered by Czech astronomer Lubos Kohoutek at the Hamburg Observatory, Germany, in March 1973. It was expected to become extremely bright towards the end of the year. It passed within 21 million km/13 million mi of the Sun on 28 December 1973 but was much fainter than predicted.
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