The Canberra Comets were a short-lived team fielded in the then-Mercantile Mutual Cup (today known as the ING Cup) but not fielded in the premier Sheffield Shield competition (today known as the Pura Cup. They existed from the 1997/98 season to the 1999/2000 season. Canberra represented the tiny Territory known as the ACT, therefore not enough local support was available for the team, let alone talent. Former Australian Test bowler Merv Hughes was brought out of retirement at 38 years of age to help Canberra, as was former Test batsman Mike Veletta. Another star player to play for the Comets was current Australian international Brad Haddin. Jump to: navigation, search The ING Cup is the current name of the domestic List A cricket (One-day/limited overs cricket) competition in Australia. ... The Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first class cricket competition in Australia. ... The Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first class cricket competition in Australia. ... Mervyn Hughes was an Australian cricketer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Michael Robert John Veletta (born October 30, 1963, Perth, Western Australia) is a former Australian and Western Australian cricketer. ...
Today, Canberra's only cricket team is the ACT side fielded in the lower-level Cricket Australia Cup.
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Article - ACB confirms decision to omit Canberra from Mercantile Mutual Cup
Visual comet hunters have used quite a variety of equipment in their pursuit of the elusive fuzzies, with some observers using reflectors, others refractors, and some big binoculars.
His comet discoveries were made with the 6-inch, which he records had a 2-degree field with its low power eyepiece.
Both Hale and Bopp found their joint comet with 16-inch Newtonians, though for both of them the discovery was fortuitous, as the comet was in the field of a Messier object.
Comet C/1996 Q1 (Tabur) was a classic example--a comet with a good chance of becoming a nice naked-eye object suddenly faded away near perihelion.
Mikuz (Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenia) was the first to confirm the comet when his CCD image revealed the comet as 4.5 arcmin across, with a total magnitude of 11.1 on the 21st.
The comet was within the bowl of the Big Dipper during October 13-15, passing only 9 arcmin from the 11.6-magnitude galaxy NGC 3998 on the 14th.
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