found: 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)