Questions tagged [halleys-comet]
Questions about Halley's Comet, a comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years.
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How is Halley's comet still in one piece?
According to the first answer of This question parts of Halley's comet hit the Earth every spring as part of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. If this is true, then how is the comet still in one piece? ...
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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?
This answer to Any record of the Earth passing through the tail (not trail) of a comet? mentions
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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