International Halley Watch
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International Halley Watch
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Halley's Comet, named after English astronomer Edmund Halley who first demonstrated its periodicity, returns to the vicinity of the Sun and Earth approximately every 76 years. Since comets are believed to be the most primordial objects in the solar system, their study is of great importance to planetary science. At the time of the 1986 return of the comet, astronomical telescopes and related instrumentation were vastly more sensitive than for any previous apparition. Consequently, the Internatio
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2023-09-23T08:59:22Z
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