actually several comets circle the sun a year!
several times a year
Typically, several comets are spotted every year.
Pieces of comet fall several times a year, in each meteor shower.
Nobody knows, really. Several comets are visible from Earth each year. Most of them have a long period and are not known in advance.
Comets appear when they do; they don't run on a schedule. Hundreds of amateur comet hunters are watching the skies every day. In fact, several new comets have been seen this year; unfortunately, those comets have fallen into the Sun.
It's also true that in EVERY year, there are several comets. Most of them aren't bright enough to see with the naked eye, and a number of them are discovered only by the SOHO (Solar and Heliocentric Observatory) as they crash into the Sun and are destroyed. In fact, in the last couple of months of 2011, a number of comets were photographed making that fatal plunge. One, Comet Lovejoy, actually survived its Sun-grazing approach and proceeded outward into the Solar System.
Yes. In addition to several comets crashing into the Sun so far this year, the 1994 impacts of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragments into Jupiter were quite spectacular.
Because comets cannot decide when they will be visible. It was a natural phenomena and remains so. Comets have a 'year' as do all solar objects. Halleys comets year happened to coincide with the battle. It was a coincidence, nothing more than that.
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pretty much I've read about these comets and the next comet will strike in the year 2015. I'm not sure when other comets will strike....
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This question was posted on September 3, 2011, so the year 2010 is already in the history books. I don't recall any especially impressive comets in 2010. But basically, there are several new, never-before seen comets (or long-period comets last seen during the reign of the Pharaohs, like Hale-Bopp) for which we have no orbital knowledge, that appear each year. Once the comet has been seen three times, we can calculate an orbit, and determine, more or less, where it will be at any future date. But until then, it's a mystery.