Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 17 days agoThere is a movement to rename Halley's Comet to Eilmer's Comet as monk Eilmer of Malmesbury was the first to identify the returning comet.www.universiteitleiden.nlexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down11
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkThere is a movement to rename Halley's Comet to Eilmer's Comet as monk Eilmer of Malmesbury was the first to identify the returning comet.www.universiteitleiden.nlQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 17 days agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squareMelllvar@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·17 days agoHalley is the one who predicted its return mathematically. I’d say that’s more significant than seeing it twice in one lifetime and supposing that it’s the same comet.
Halley is the one who predicted its return mathematically. I’d say that’s more significant than seeing it twice in one lifetime and supposing that it’s the same comet.