| LC control no. | n 2004008357 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bopp, Thomas J. |
| Birth date | 1949-10-15 |
| Death date | 2018-01-05 |
| Place of birth | Denver (Colo.) |
| Place of death | Phoenix (Ariz.) |
| Field of activity | Astronomy |
| Found in | Graun, Ken. Our earth and the solar system, c2001: t.p. (Thomas J. Bopp) p. 36 (1995; codiscovered the comet Hale-Bopp) Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 10, 2018 (on the night of July 22, 1995, the stars aligned for Thomas Bopp; a 47-year-old parts manager living in Glendale, Ariz., he worked for an asphalt and concrete supply company and had taken to stargazing on his Saturday nights; Mr. Bopp--within minutes of another Southwest astronomer, 37-year-old Alan Hale--had discovered what is officially known as C/1995 O1; Mr. Bopp, who received a flurry of international attention and a form of scientific immortality from the Hale-Bopp comet that bears his name, died Jan. 5 [2018] in Phoenix; he was 68; Thomas Joel Bopp was born in Denver on Oct. 15, 1949; worked as a Toyota dealership shuttle driver in recent years, and continued speaking about the Hale-Bopp comet while volunteering at observatories in the Phoenix area) |
| Associated language | eng |
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