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Ednmund Halley
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- Halley's Comet
- By: Autumn Schultheis
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- Before Edmund's Discovery
- THE SKY IS FALLING!
- Before Edmund Halley's discovery about the short period comet of ice and dust that happens to orbit around the sun every 75-76 years, for 1700 years people used to think that comets were disastrous form of chaos, or a warning of supernatural cause. The comets used to freak people out. For example, a comet occurred in 12 BC, and then was interpreted by the Romans as an omen of death.
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- Edmund's Prediction's True!
- I told you!
- In 1705 Edmund Halley's work,"Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets," Halley suggested that the comets of, 1531, 1607, and 1682 were all purposed events. He then came to a prediction that the comet, "Halley's Comet." would return in 1758. People were skeptical, but disbelief was a more known feeling to the public about his conclusions. After his Edmund's death, a comet reappeared, on December 25, 1758 a German farmer and amateur astronomer named, Johann Georg Palitzsch, saw the sighting of the comet, 76 years later after the last sighting.
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