[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #4196, aired 2002-11-25 [PAR] Logically, Alcoa's new corporate headquarters, completed in 1998, used 800,000 
.... He died in 1742, missing the fulfillment of his prediction of a comet seen in... [DOC] [TLE] Ten Facts About Halley's Comet [PAR] Ten facts about Halley's Comet or Comet Halley, reappears every 76 years. ... 
Halley's Comet is named after the astronomer Edmund Halley (1656 - 1742). ... 
He believed that comets actually orbit the Sun just like planets and that the comet 
he had seen would return in about 76 years ... It returned in 1758 as he predicted. [DOC] [TLE] How many times in Earth's history has Halleys Comet appeared? [PAR] Halley's is classified as a relatively young comet, and since comets loose about 1 
... He determined that the comets seen in 1531 and 1607 were the same object 
that followed a 76-year orbit. Unfortunately, Halley died in 1742, never living to 
see his prediction come true when the comet returned on Christmas Eve 1758. [DOC] [TLE] Comet - Wikipedia [PAR] A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, 
heats up and ... Hyperbolic comets may pass once through the inner Solar 
System before ..... 1607, and 1682 were the same body and successfully 
predicted its return in ... of the same comet, he predicted that it would appear 
again in 17589. [DOC] [TLE] Edmond Halley (1656-1742) - SEDS Messier Database [PAR] After returning to England in 1678, he got his "Catalog of the Southern Stars" 
published ... comet he had observed in 1682 had an orbit almost identical to 
those of the comets of ... of one and the same comet, the return of which he 
predicted for 1758. ... When Flamsteed died, his favorite enemy Halley 
succeeded him in 1720,... [DOC] [TLE] History of Astronomy by George Forbes - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/3) [PAR] reliable observations of comets he could find, to the number of twenty-four, and 
computed ... and position, resembled the orbit of a comet observed by himself in 
1682. ... He then predicted its return at the end of 1758 or beginning of 1759, 
when he should be dead; but, as he said, "if it should return, ..... His successor in 
1742, [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Comets" - Internet Archive [PAR] 12 COMETS him about his death, "They will be right some day, and the public ... 
In many cases, particularly with faint comets, the nucleus and tail seem to be 
missing. ...... I may, therefore, with con- fidence, predict its return in the year 1758. 
... As Halley died in 1742, at the age of eighty- five, he of course did not live to 
see... [DOC] [TLE] Astronomy - A History - George Forbes - 1909  elib.at [PAR] Sep 22, 2008 ... He deduced his system, in which the earth revolves in an orbit, from fantastic first 
.... Odysseus is said in his voyage in springtime to have seen the Pleiades .... The 
results of his cogitations were printed just before his death in an ...... would retard 
the comet 100 days, Jupiter 518 days, and predicted its return... [DOC] [TLE] Oceanus Magazine: A Tribute to Henry Stommel - Woods Hole ... [PAR] Claims for missing .... His death brought to an end the career of a man who, .... 
topic to which he returned many times until he finally hit upon the idea ...... der, 
and bring us joy and fulfillment. There is ... Leverrier had mailed his predicted 
location ...... noticed that the elements of the comets of 1531, 1607, and 1682 
were much. [DOC] [TLE] Creators of Mathematics book.pdf - ResearchGate [PAR] matical accuracy was seen to be of the utmost importance. ...... pupils moved to 
Athens, but he returned to Cnidus shortly before his death. He died while on ...... 
lived in Paris (16551657), and taught mathematics in London (16581682). In. 
1668 ...... In this work he predicted the return

Question: He died in 1742, missing the fulfillment of his prediction of a comet seen in 1682 returning in 1758
Answer: Edmond Halley