Questions tagged [halleys-comet]
Questions about Halley's Comet, a comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years.
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Details about the next big comet 2014 UN271?
The announcent of the massive trans-Neptunian object 2014 UN271 to be a comet is rather new (June 22nd, 2021) and really exciting. That comet is rather huge (~100km diameter) and "falling toward ...
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Dotted line of moving objects observed on May 5th and May 12th [duplicate]
I saw a dotted line shooting star-like object May 5th and May 12th. It was longer than any meteor/shooting star tail or trail I've ever seen before. I mean longer in every way, the distance it ...
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Halley's Comet duration of visibility
When Halley's Comet is visible in the sky, how long does that last? Is it only visible for a week or is it up there for a month, or several months? What I'm actually wondering is, though it arrived in ...
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What comet's tail did Earth pass through before Halley's?
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Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910. It caused a bit of a panic due to claims that ...
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What were they expecting to see when Halley's comet appeared in 1910?
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Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910. It caused a bit of a panic due to claims that ...
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Does Halley's Comet travel past the outer bounds of the Oort Cloud?
We know Halley's Comet returns every 75-76 years. We can reasonably compute its elliptical orbit.
We know that the Oort Cloud is a cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun ...
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