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Although comet Kohoutek has not lived up to some of the more extravagant claims made for its astronomical prominence, Professor Biermann shows that observations will still be fruitful because so little is known about the nature of comets.
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BIERMANN, L. Comet Kohoutek. Nature 246, 400–402 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246400a0
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