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November 12: Comet Spotted

On 12 November 164 BCE, according to the only surviving record found on two Babylonian tablets, a comet was viewed for the second time. In 1705, Edmond Halley determined the comet’s periodicity and now it’s named after him. Before the Renaissance people accepted Aristotle’s conclusion that they were disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere. Therefore, Halley’s […]