1992 Event Spaceship Giotto, Halley 1986, approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup 1986 Event Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km 1986 Event European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) 1986 Event Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km 1986 Event Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km 1986 Event Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km 1986 Event U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km 1986 Event Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) 1985 Event Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei 1985 Event Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby) 1985 Event Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet 1985 Event European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby) 1985 Event En route to Halley's Comet, U.S.S.R.'s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus 1985 Event International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley 1985 Event Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet 1985 Event Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet 1984 Event U.S.S.R. launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come 1984 Event U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet 1982 Event Mount Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return 1970 Event Bill Halley and Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia 1935 Birthday 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 Event Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic 1910 Event Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass 1910 Event Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km 1910 Event Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao) 1909 Event Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet 1759 Event 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1758 Event Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return 1742 Death Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 85 1742 Death Edmond Halley, English Scientist 1723 Birthday J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz 1720 Event Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England 1715 Event Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads" 1682 Event English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet 1679 Event Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig 1678 Event Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford 1673 Event Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate 1656 Birthday Edmund Halley, English astronomer, comet of Halley 1656 Birthday Edmond Halley, English Scientist 1456 Event 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1145 Event 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1066 Event 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1061 Event Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed 837 Event Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years 837 Event Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth 837 Event 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 760 Event 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 607 Event Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth 607 Event 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 451 Event 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 374 Event Comet 1P/374 E1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0884 AUs of Earth 374 Event 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 295 Event 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 218 Event 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 141 Event 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 66 Event 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
