Since nobody has posted this yet in the 1980s community; I will. Somebody even more interested in astronomy than myself can be stuck with being the first to post about Supernova 1987A or whatever.
Halley's Comet still is, and always does, stay in the Solar System. Around 2023 it will start to make it's orbital path back toward Earth for its 2061 return.
I believe it came around 1985, the year I was born. I cannot wait for it to come back to take me home, wink wink.
You and Mark Twain both. “It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together’.”
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So, did Mark Twain die the same year the comet was flying by? Yeah, I heard about Mark being born like how many years before 1985, like 140 years? The comet circles every 70 years?
I was taught there was a connection between Mark Twain and Halley's Comet when I went to school. According to Google search his birth and death roughly coincide. To be honest whenever I think of Mark Twain I am always reminded of how he was portrayed on Star Trek: TNG.
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Mark Twain was also in The New Adventures of Lois & Clark from the 1990's.
I watched that series but as a fan of Lex Luthor and the other evil geniuses. I remember H.G. Wells but I don't remember seeing Mark Twain as a character. I must have missed that episode somehow.
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They had an episode involving time travel. I forget who was the villain. It might been a group of episodes.