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Originally Posted by bkm2304
Perhaps someone knows but I vaguely remember one or two comets being discovered by pilots/cabin crew over the years.
Richard
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Hi Richard, I have a great love for comets and observing them, so I took this interesting question over to my comet buddies and Terry Lovejoy was quick-within 10 mins to provide the following information. He has such a great knowledge of comets!
They are:
C/1970 K1 (White-Ortiz-Bolelli) and C/1961 O1 (Wilson-Hubbard). Both were obvious naked eye comets.
This is the account written by Wilson on his discovery from the plane, what a great read, this is gold!:
And the link for how C/1970 was discovered is here:
http://cometography.com/lcomets/1970k1.html