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There's nothing all that special about the comet itself other than that it happenes to be the first one that was successfully predicted. Halley realized that several of the comets reported in historical accounts were probably the same object orbiting the sun with a period of about 76 years and predicted its return (unfortunately, the period was long enough that he died before seeing his prediction came true).

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16y ago

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