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Several spacecraft successfully made the journey to the comet. This fleet of spaceships is sometimes dubbed the "Halley Armada." Two joint Soviet/French probes (Vega 1 and 2) flew nearby, with one of them capturing pictures of the nucleus, or "heart," of the comet for the first time. a b c d Jewitt, David C. (2002). "From Kuiper Belt Object to Cometary Nucleus: The Missing Ultrared Matter". The Astronomical Journal. 123 (2): 1039–1049. Bibcode: 2002AJ....123.1039J. doi: 10.1086/338692. S2CID 122240711. Tomayko, James E. (March 1988). "Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience". NASA History Office . Retrieved 7 November 2012. Several accounts of the 1835 apparition were made by observers who survived until the 1910 return, where increased interest in the comet led to their being interviewed. [97] Stephenson, F. Richard; Yau, Kevin K. C., "Oriental tales of Halley's Comet", New Scientist, vol. 103, no. 1423, pp. 30–32, 27 September 1984 ISSN 0262-4079

Although the comet's retrograde orbit and high inclination made it difficult to send a space probe to it, [124] the 1986 apparition gave scientists the opportunity to study the comet closely and several probes were launched to do so. The Soviet Vega 1 probe began returning images of Halley on 4 March 1986, captured the first-ever image of its nucleus, [18] and made its flyby on 6 March. It was followed by the Vega 2 probe, making its flyby on 9 March. On 14 March, the Giotto space probe, launched by the European Space Agency, made the closest pass of the comet's nucleus. [18] There also were two Japanese probes, Suisei and Sakigake. Unofficially, the numerous probes became known as the Halley Armada. [125] Kronk, Gary W. (1999). Cometography, vol. 1: Ancient-1799. Cambridge University Press. pp.253–255. ISBN 978-0-521-58504-0.Halley was the first comet to be recognized as periodic. Until the Renaissance, the philosophical consensus on the nature of comets, promoted by Aristotle, was that they were disturbances in Earth's atmosphere. This idea was disproved in 1577 by Tycho Brahe, who used parallax measurements to show that comets must lie beyond the Moon. Many were still unconvinced that comets orbited the Sun, and assumed instead that they must follow straight paths through the Solar System. [23] The main character is described as a man 103 years old with the body of a 65 year old. Is he too old to be a "hero" in a science fiction novel in a modern society that has given great attention to youth in recent decades? Sam Benstead breaks down why investors are fleeing the bond market – and explains why that could actually be a good thing.

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I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' [111] [112]