Interesting way to say it's a little more than halfway through its cycle.
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I was thinking about Halley just few days ago, I was a kid last time, and was wondering if i will make it to next visit
Tell me about it. My day of birth is closer to WW2 than to the present. So depressing!
#metoo
But it's not really depressing, we're still better off than the other option!
When I was a lad, I had a special edition Halley’s Comet Matchbox Car. No idea why.
It's last pass was in 1986.
Right, but why a Matchbox car? I must have gotten it as a present, but who would buy such a thing and why was it made?
Hopefully all of MAGA does the same as the Heaven's Gate cult and castrate themselves and zip-tie plastic bags to their heads when they sleep as the comet flys overhead.
Hopefully they pick a different comet that arrives a lot sooner!
That was Hale-Bopp not Halley's comet.
On 9 December 2023, Halley's Comet reached the farthest and slowest point in its orbit from the Sun when it was travelling at 0.91 km/s (2,000 mph) with respect to the Sun.
My mind is fully blown that the SR-71 could outrun a comet
That’s like saying I can outrun a TGV (while it’s departing the train station)
Eh, I get the sentiment. Nothing in space comes to a stop and most speeds are well beyond human comprehension. The Earth orbits at 67,000mph, escape velocity is like 27,000mph, the ground at the equator moves at about 1,000mph, the Voyagers are in the 30k range, and the Park Solar probe peaks over 400,000mph. So to learn that a comet is a tangible aviation speed was neat to me, at least
The SR-71 could almost outrun the moon. Maybe it could. Claimed max 2,200mph vs average 2,288mph of the moon
Correction: Halley's Comet's next visit will be its last.
(sharpens knife)
🎶 I don't wanna clooose my eyeeees 🎶
Mark Chesnutt? Nice!
It's all pot8's fault, them and that shifty eyed dog
Oh the disappointment the last one was… just a blob, like a small cloud. In contrast, the Tsuchinshan in 2024 was so much better to see.
Cool!
expected to return in tens of thousands of years
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