Hale-Bopp

Hale-Bopp
Habitat	Beyond
Type	Celestial Body Comet
Generator Stats
Base Cost	Stardust 1.13e32
Base Production	Stardust 8.32e29
Base Charge Time	2,560 s (42:40)
Traits
Speed	Bright Perihelion
Payout	Third Tail
Chronology
Previous	Halley's Comet
Next	Kuiper Belt

Hale-Bopp is the 24th Celestial Body and the 3rd Comet obtained in the Beyond (Rank 10), which can generate Stardust Stardust.

Description

"Comet Hale-Bopp was visible with the naked eye for a record-breaking 18 months in 1996—1997. It was one of the brightest comets ever seen by humans, and the most widely observed comet in the 20th century."

Traits

The rare traits matching this generators type are: Comets . Hale-Bopp is also affected by the epic traits: Speed of Light , Cosmic Gravity , Goldilocks Zone . It is also affected by the constellations: Scorpio,Virgo, as well as by the generator rank.

Icon	Name	Description	Requires
	Bright Perihelion	Comet Hale–Bopp was one of the brightest comets seen in centuries when it reached its perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the Sun) in 1997. It was so bright it could be seen even in daytime.	Rank 10
	Third Tail	Astronomers had known for some time that comets had two tails, one made of dust and the other of gas. They discovered a third tail, made of sodium, when observing comet Hale–Bopp.	Rank 11

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	Requires
	The Great Comet	Maybe once every decade, an unusually bright comet will appear in the night sky. Throughout history, these rare astronomical events have been called Great Comets. Humans once considered them omens of important events to come.	Hale-Bopp Rank 5
	I Want to Believe	While observing Comet Hale–Bopp, an amateur astronomer incorrectly identified the star SAO141894 as an unidentified flying object in the comet’s wake. This led many conspiracy theorists to conclude that the comet foretold the coming of aliens.	Hale-Bopp Rank 8

Trivia

An image of Comet Hale–Bopp (cometary designation: C/1995 O1) taken in 1997 at the Johannes-Kepler-Observatory (German Wikipedia)

The comet as soon from Earth. The photograph was taken in 1997 by Philipp Salzgeber

The orbit Hale-Bopp follows in the game is not the same as the real one, since its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) sits at around 0.9 AU (Astronomical Units), which is still inside the inner solar system. The closest point to the Sun in Cell to Singularity is way beyond Neptune.

Sources

• Comet Hale-Bopp — Real images taken