Orionids Meteor Shower Starts This Weekend Oct 17, 2009
The comet is visible to the naked eye, and in the 1700s astronomer Edmond Halley was the first to correctly predict its return, calculating that the comet comes back every 76 years. Later studies revealed historical sightings of Halley's comet in circa-240 B.C. Chinese records and in medieval England's 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry, for example. (National Geographic)
More Than a Man With a Comet -- A Biographical Account of Scientist Edmond Halley May 7, 2009
Authored by D.C. Ipsen, Edmond Halley: More Than a Man With a Comet discusses the life and works of scientist Edmond Halley, the British astronomer who gave a forecast of the date that a comet would return ... Get to know the scientist and his remarkable unselfishness and participation in the propagation of scientific knowledge in Edmond Halley: More Than a Man With a Comet ... Edmond Halley: More Than a Man With a Comet * by D. C. Ipsen Publication Date: November 2, 2004 Trade Paperback; $8. (Primezone Releases)
• COLUMN: Giant spots dim the light of this fast-spinning star May 7, 2009
Scarborough claimed the star shone particularly bright on the night the younger Charles restored the British monarchy, although some sources credit Edmond Halley (of comet fame) with the suggestion. Next week: Saturn's disappearing rings. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
LOOKING UP: Whats shining under our feet Feb 28, 2009
One of the first astronomers to take a telescope south of the equator was Edmond Halley, who sailed in November 1676 to the south Atlantic island of St. Helena. Here, Halley measured positions of 341 southern stars. (Medfield Press, MA)
