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Comet
2006
Stardust space mission returns dust from a comet to earth
1997
Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69
1997
Comet Hale-Bopp Perihelion (0.914 AU)
1997
Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
1997
Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997
Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997
Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
1997
1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1996
Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
1994
23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th
1994
Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)
1994
Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994
1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
1994
Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1993
Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
1992
Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
1992
David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
1992
Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
1989
Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989
Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989
Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
1986
Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
1986
European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1986
Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986
Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1986
Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986
U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1986
Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1985
Flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
1985
Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1985
Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1985
Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1985
European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1985
En route to Halley's Comet, U.S.S.R.'s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985
Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1985
Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1984
U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1984
David Levy finds his 1st comet
1983
Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth
1983
Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth
1982
Mt. Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1979
Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1973
1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
1973
Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
1973
Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1970
Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1961
Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1953
Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1952
1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1951
Ace Frehley, born in Bronx, New York, heavy metal rocker, Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet
1949
1st jet-propelled airline, De Havilland Comet, flies
1930
Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth
1927
Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke approaches within 0.0394 AUs of Earth
1910
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1910
Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
1910
Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1910
Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1909
Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet
1908
Giant fireball impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event) (Enckes comet)
1900
Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1865
Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73
1864
Comet C/1864 N1 (Tempel) approaches within 0.0964 AUs of Earth
1864
Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
1861
Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
1858
Donati's comet becomes 1st to be photographed
1858
Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1853
Comet C/1853 G1 (Schweizer) approaches within 0.0839 AUs of Earth
1847
Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1847
German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf
1826
M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
1819
William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
1817
Charles Messier, "comet ferret" and catalogs famous "M objects,", dies
1805
Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
1801
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
1797
Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1791
Johann F Encke, German astronomer, Encke Comet
1785
Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet
1781
Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1760
Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
1759
27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1758
Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1743
Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
1723
J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1702
Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
1682
English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
1680
Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
1679
Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
1656
Edmund Halley, English astronomer, comet of Halley
1456
23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1366
Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches 0.0229 AUs of Earth
1264
Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1145
19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1066
18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1061
Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
837
Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
837
Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
837
15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
760
14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
607
Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth
607
12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
451
10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
374
Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth
374
9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
295
8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
218
7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
141
6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
66
5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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