"We start sharing the life of this sungrazer comet back in 1935 and beyond Pluto's orbit. There's 30 years and five thousand million miles to go before Earthlings first set eyes on us."
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"It is now the beginning of 1965. We have passed Jupiter and reached the inner solar System."
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"You have now passed Earth's orbit and the comet is rapidly gathering speed."
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"We encounter the Sun at break-neck speed, skimming through its outer gases less than one solar radius from its blazing yellow surface. So great are the forces, part of our comet breaks off."
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"Now the comet is receding and will not return to the inner solar system for 877 years. First it has to go six times further from the Sun than Neptune. How remote the Sun seems, yet its hold on Comet Ikeya-Seki is irresistable."