Comets

Comets : Comets are celestial bodies that move around the sun.

Important Comets:

Halley’s comet  known after its British astronomer, Edmund Halley,who discovered it in 1705. He stated that the comets seen in 1531, 1607 and 1683 were the body which circles the sun in every 76 years.

Comet ‘Smith Tuttle’ is a huge comet heading on a collision with the earth on 17 August 2116. It was first sighted in 1862 and rediscovered in 1992 .It could kill most form of life with explosion more powerful than the explosion of several necular bombs put together.


Posted by : Vishal.Kalgutkar