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Loading contentA short-period comet (1P/Halley) that returns to the inner Solar System roughly every 76 years.
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NASA JPL (Caltech)
NASA JPL (Caltech) (n.d.). Halley's Comet — JPL Small-Body Database. NASA JPL (Caltech). https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html
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title = {Halley's Comet — JPL Small-Body Database},
organization = {NASA JPL (Caltech)},
year = {n.d.},
url = {https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html},
note = {Orbit and physical data for Halley's Comet.}
}NASA
NASA (n.d.). Halley's Comet — NASA Science. NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/
@misc{cite:nasa-comet-halleys-comet,
title = {Halley's Comet — NASA Science},
organization = {NASA},
year = {n.d.},
url = {https://science.nasa.gov/},
note = {NASA overview of Halley's Comet.}
}How Halley's Comet connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
An October meteor shower whose radiant lies in the constellation Orion, produced by debris from Halley's Comet.
Edmond Halley was an English astronomer who computed the orbit of the comet that now bears his name and predicted its return.
Applying Newton's gravitation, Halley showed that comets recorded in 1531, 1607, and 1682 were one body on a 76-year orbit, and predicted its return in 1758.
Periodic comets with orbits of decades to a couple of centuries, named for their prototype, Halley's Comet.
A hypothesised spherical cloud of trillions of icy bodies at the outermost edge of the Sun's gravitational influence — the reservoir from which long-period and Halley-type comets are nudged inward.
ESA's mission to Halley's Comet, which flew through the comet's coma in 1986 and returned the first close-up images of a cometary nucleus, later re-targeted to comet Grigg–Skjellerup.
A periodic comet orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission.
Periodic comet — 19P/Borrelly.
A long-period comet that was widely visible to the naked eye in 1997.
A comet that passed very close to Earth in 1996.
A long-period comet discovered in 2020 that became a bright naked-eye object in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
A comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.
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General reference for the history of astronomy, biographies, and cultural context.