Flourished Cyme (near Izmir, Turkey), 4th century BCE
In 372 BCE, Greek historian Ephorus reported seeing a comet break into two. It has been speculated that this comet is the ancestor of Carl Kreutz 's sun‐grazing comets.
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Barber, G. L. (1979). The Historian Ephorus. New York: AMS Press.
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(2007). Ephorus. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_418
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