Halley's Comet Was Spotted By Ancient Greeks

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 07:21 in Astronomy & Space

The ancient Greeks likely saw Halley's Comet streak past Earth in 466 B.C., pushing the earliest documented observation of the comet back by more than 200 years, a new study has found.

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