It's important because if we don't know if it gets close to the sun, then we don't know if we can see it or not. See, when a comet gets close to the sun, we can see it. Therefore, we need to know if it will get near the sun. That's why it's important.
orbit .
It is called an orbit. A comet has an eccentric or parabolic orbit.
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Comets in space have an orbit path.
An orbit
Halley's comet is important because it has 5 most important facts about it.
An orbit
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The first person to calculate a comet's elliptical path and predict its return date was Edmond Halley, who did so for the comet now known as Halley's Comet. He predicted its return after observing it in 1682, and it returned as predicted in 1758.
Halley's Comet is following its long orbital path. It is currently a little past the orbit of Neptune, and is not visible.
A comet is often described by Astronomers as a 'Dirty Snowball'. This is because a comet comprises of Ice, from frozen gases mixed with dust and other particulate matter, collected on its orbital path.
Tracking the wayward path of a comet is no easy matter.