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COPYRIGHT 2008 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
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This past October, amateur astronomers were amazed by a weird transformation. For most of the month, Comet Holmes, more than 150 million miles from Earth, was no brighter than magnitude 17--about 25,000 times fainter than the faintest star that can normally be seen without any optical aid....
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