[DOC] [TLE] Halley's Comet: Facts About the Most Famous Comet - Space.com [PAR] Feb 20, 2013 ... High-powered telescopes also observed the comet as it swung by Earth. ... 
Chinese astronomers recorded its passage in the Shih Chi and Wen ... When 
Halley's returned in 164 B.C. and 87 B.C., it probably was ... of comets as heralds: 
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Chinese, ... The missions also provided data that substantially reformed and ..... 
The apparition of 87 BC was recorded in Babylonian tablets which state that the 
comet... [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain Was Born and Died in the Same Years That Halley's ... [PAR] Oct 21, 2013 ... In his A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, Halley stated that the ... Comets 
were seen as isolated events and a sort of herald of change or ... (Interestingly, 
Halley's Comet would have passed in Caesar's lifetime around 87 B.C.two ... 
Eilmer was a monk born around 980 AD who was able to see the... [DOC] [TLE] Astronomy Timeline [PAR] Chinese astronomers recorded 900 solar and 600 lunar eclipses over a period ... 
He also invented a heliocentric (Sun-centered) model for the solar system. p. ... to 
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of Biblical events, Ussher concluded that the Earth was created in 4004 BC. p. [DOC] [TLE] The observations of Halley's comet in Chinese history [PAR] Crommelin also considered that the comet seen in 467 B.C. was not ... the dates 
of the perihelia of Halley's Cornet from 240 B.C. to A.D. 1986, being thirty returns. 
... 'THE COMET OF 87 B.C. The return of Halley's Comet in 87 B.C. can be found 
... The Annal of Late 'Han recorded an observation of a comet as follows : In the... [DOC] [TLE] What are some astronomical events that have affected history? [PAR] There are a number of total solar eclipses that have been seen since ancient 
times that were ... When you tally up how many of these astronomical events 
have been recorded by humans and affected ... June 3,1301 BC, Eclipse, Early 
Chinese Eclipse observation ... 1607 AD, Halleys Comet, Observed by Johannes 
Kepler. [DOC] [TLE] How Halley's Comet sightings changed history over the past 2500 ... [PAR] Sep 14, 2010 ... Ancient Greek texts reveal the earliest recorded sighting of the solar ... 
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then looked ... was by Chinese scholars noting the passage of the comet in 240 
BC, ... comet during its closest approach to the Sun on August 6, 87 BCE,... [DOC] [TLE] Saudi Aramco World : The Long Haired Star [PAR] In the year A.H. 458 [A.D. 1066], during the middle of the month of Jumada II, a 
comet ... He also noted that a comet - called by some "the long-haired star" - had 
... found a description of the same phenomenon - as seen from Baghdad: ... as 
164 B.C., and 87 B.C. in Babylon; both those sightings were recorded on recently
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its .... of Comets, From B.C. 611 to A.D. 1640: Extracted from the Chinese Annals. 
... (Jerusalem/Washington: Israel Program for Scientific Translations/National ... 
the returns of 164 BC and 87 BC have also been recorded in cuneiform sources. [DOC] [TLE] An Ancient Greek Sighting of Halley's Comet? - Journal of Cosmology [PAR] But the success in predicting returns has also allowed astronomers to project 
backwards the ... to identify appearances of the comet in 87 and 164 BC (
Stephenson et al. ... and Chinese observers kept meticulous records of daily 
phenomena in the ... when mythological thinking was common (philosophers 
proposed scientific... [DOC] [TLE] Comets - Crystalinks [PAR] Following the

Question: In 87 B.C. the Chinese recorded an astronomical phenomenon that scientists think was this, also seen in 1607 A.D.
Answer: Halley\'s Comet