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When was the last haley's comet seen.Please verify clearly?

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please mention the date and day and year also.And one more ques,How to make a time machine?

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  1. The "last" Halley's comet?  There is only one.

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  2. Time machines do not exist.  There's no way to make one.

    Halley's Comet made it's closest approach to the sun on February 9, 1986.  It will return on July 28, 2061.

  3. I saw it in 1986 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean thousands of miles away from land on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

    IT WAS BAD

  4. No such thing as a time machine...

  5. Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope facility at Cerro Paranal in Chile imaged comet 1P/Halley over the period March 6 - 8 in 2003, according to a press release from September for that year.  The images were obtained as part of a search for Kuiper Belt objects.

  6. in 1986 AD, it was seen from the earth for many days.

    And about time machine; I have already made and used it, but didn't sell yet. I priced it 1 trillion pound only. If u want to buy contact me.

  7. The 1986 approach was the least favourable for Earth observers of all recorded passages of the comet throughout history: the comet did not achieve the spectacular brightness of some previous approaches, and with increased light pollution from urbanization, many people never saw the comet at all. Further, the comet appeared brightest when it was almost invisible from the northern hemisphere in March and April, prompting many amateur astronomers to travel to the southern hemisphere for a glimpse of the interloper. However, the development of space travel allowed scientists the opportunity to study the comet at close quarters, and several probes were launched to do so. The Soviet Vega 1 started returning images of Halley on 1986 March 4, and the first ever of its nucleus, and made its flyby on March 6, followed by Vega 2 making its flyby on March 9. On March 14, the Giotto space probe, launched by the European Space Agency, made a closest pass of the comet's nucleus. There were also two Japanese probes, Suisei and Sakigake. The probes were unofficially known as the Halley Armada.

    The first person to visually observe comet Halley on its 1986 return was amateur astronomer Stephen James O'Meara on January 24, 1985. O'Meara used a home-built 24" telescope on top of Mauna Kea to detect the magnitude 19.6 comet. As for the naked eye observing, it was Stephen Edberg (then serving as the Coordinator for Amateur Observations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Charles Morris who were the first to observe Comet Halley with the naked eye in its 1986 apparition.

    During the Halley's Comet viewing, Yuma, Arizona, was the best place to see the comet without machine. During the week of April 4, the city of Yuma gave the title "Halley's Comet Baby" to the first baby born during that week.[

    Based on data, retrieved by Astron, the largest ultraviolet space telescope of the time, during its Halley's Comet observations in December 1985, a group of Soviet scientists developed a model of the comet's coma. The comet was also observed from space by the International Cometary Explorer. Originally International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 the probe was renamed and freed from its L1 Lagrangian point location in Earth's orbit to intercept comets 21P/Giacobini-Zinner and Halley.

    Two Space Shuttle missions — the ill-fated STS-51-L (the Challenger disaster) and STS-61-E — were scheduled to observe Comet Halley from low Earth orbit. 61-E would have been flown by Challenger in March 1986, carrying the ASTRO-1 platform to study the comet. The mission was canceled, and ASTRO-1 would not fly until late 1990 on STS-35.

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