When was Halies Commit last seen?

Answer 1

Around about the same time as Halley's Comet which was in 1985.
It won't be back until 2061.

Answer 2

1986, prior to that 1910. The next appearance is 2061.

It is the most famous of all periodic comets. Although in every century many long-period comets appear brighter and more spectacular, Halley is the only short-period comet that is visible to the naked eye.

In November 1703 Edmund Halley (1656-1742) was appointed Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford University. In 1705, applying historical astronomy methods, he published Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae, which stated his belief that the comet sightings of 1456, 1531, 1607, and 1682 related to the same comet, which he predicted would return in 1758. When it did it became generally known as Halley's Comet.

He succeeded John Flamsteed as Astronomer Royal in 1720, a position h held till his death in 1742.

Halley is pronounced to rhyme witn Valley not Bailey.

Sounds like Nat who remembers viewing a comet about 11 years ago when he was 7 must be thinking of Shoemaker-Levy not Halley's Comet.

He would have been minus 2 years old, not even conceived in 1986, so he would have been real smart to be using a telescope when he was still only a gleam (or should that be a twinkle?) in his parents' eyes!

Answer 3

1986. I am curious how an 18 year old remembers seeing it when he was 11 therefore. Must be the oldest teenager on the block: he would now be 31,

It comes around every 75-76 years. Some people who live to be octogenarians will see it twice, once as a child and once as an OAP. I knew an old man who died in 1988 who had seen it as a six year old in 1910, who willed himself to live long enough so he could see it again. He died a happy man at the age of 84.

The spelling is Halley. The early rock and roll group ("Rock Around The Clock") Bill Haley and the Comets, changed the spelling in pinching the name,

Answer 4

Halley's comet
Dimensions · 16 x 8 x 8km
Orbital period · 76 years
Next visible from Earth · 2061

Halley's [HAL-lee] Comet has been know since at least 240 BC and possibly since 1059 BC. Its most famous appearance was in 1066 AD when it was seen right before the Battle of Hastings. It was named after Edmund Halley, who calculated its orbit. He determined that the comets seen in 1531 and 1607 were the same object that followed a 76-year orbit. Unfortunately, Halley died in 1742, never living to see his prediction come true when the comet returned on Christmas Eve 1758.
Halley's Comet put on bright shows in 1835 and in 1910. Then in 1984 and 1985, five spacecraft from the USSR, Japan and Europe were launched to make a rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986. One of NASA's deep space satellites was redirected to monitor the solar wind upstream from Halley. Only three comets have ever been studied by spacecraft. Comet Giacobini-Zinner was studied in 1985, Comet Halley in 1986, and CometGrigg-Skjellerup on July 10th, 1992. The nucleus of Halley is ellipsoidal in shape and measures approximately 16 by 8 by 8 kilometers (10 by 5 by 5 miles).

Answer 5

It was seen in 1910 and in 1986, so it passes near us every 75-76 years, so it's next near transit of Earth will be in 2061-2.

Answer 6

1985. It was so small you needed a telescope or binoculars to see it. Nothing like the 1910 apearance which apparently extended 30 degrees across the sky.
I remember looking at it and it was nothing great. Like a star that someone had smudged.

Answer 7

1999

Answer 8

Definitely 1986,

Was 11, in the country side in Ireland and was very clear.

Answer 9

Halley's Comet was last seen in 1986

Answer 10

Halies Commit?

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