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1992 Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup

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 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 International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley

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 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come

1984 U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet

1982 Mount Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

1970 Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia

1935 Ian Stewart, born in Scotland, born Bernard Harold Ian Halley Stewartby, Baron Stewartby of Portmoak in the District of Perth and Kinross, Member of Parliament for Hitchin

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

1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return

1742 Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 85

1742 Edmond Halley, English Scientist

1723 J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz

1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England

1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"

1682 English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet

1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig

1678 Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford

1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate

1656 Edmund Halley, English astronomer, comet of Halley

1656 Edmond Halley, English Scientist

1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

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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