Halley's Comet

[Potter]

Halley's Comet or Comet Halley (officially designated 1P/Halley) is the most famous of the periodic comets and can currently be seen every 75–76 years. Many comets with long orbital periods may appear brighter and more spectacular, but Halley is the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye, and thus, the only naked-eye comet certain to return within a human lifetime.[10] During its returns to the inner solar system, it has been observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC, but it was not recognized as a periodic comet until the eighteenth century when its orbit was computed by Edmond Halley, after whom the comet is now named.

Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System in 1986, and will next appear in mid-2061



we'll all be mad old the next time it comes into the solar system lol

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[♪ *~ Lola ~* ♪]

I wont be around!

[A Dream Is A Wish (Old)]

I was born in 1986. XD

[Fatal Rewind]

I saw it, wasn't any big deal though, just a blob through a telescope.

What happened anyway, why did it "fizzle out"? 'Cuz you were supposed to be able to go outside and just see it in the nighttime sky, supposedly, it'd be even bigger than the moon.

[HansonCutter97]

Dude I will be 76 when it comes by again... lol...

[Potter]

yea i'll be 77 lol