Halley's comet is a heavenly body or the originator of the apocalypse?

One of the most unusual, mysterious and mysterious celestial bodies is Halley's comet. Judging by the historical chronicles, its history counts for over two thousand years. And this is only what was recorded by the ancient astronomers, who, of course, did not suspect that they were dealing with the same object for centuries. The information available to modern scientists, humanity owes to Edmund Halley, a versatile scientist who was able to summarize all the references to comets and compare them with his observations. In 1705 he published work, where he describes his reflections on the periodicity of the movement of comets. He came to a similar conclusion after he noted in historical documents that at several times several comets were approaching the Earth, moving along a very similar trajectory. Relying on Newton's law of universal attraction, Halley concluded that it is one and the same celestial body that makes a complete revolution around the sun in about 75 to 76 years. He also suggested the next appearance of this object near the Earth, but he did not wait to confirm his theory. After his death, the world scientists calculated the exact date of the appearance of this comet and looked forward to her next visit. When the theory was confirmed, behind the heavenly body the name of the one who first discovered it was forever fixed.

What is the Halley comet? Everyone else from the course of astronomy at school knows that comets consist of an ice core and a tail formed by evaporating substances and the smallest solid particles. In 1986, scientists were able to understand in more detail what the Halley comet consists of. Photo, television images, observations obtained by European and Soviet probes made it possible to establish that the comet's core is half composed of ice formed by frozen water, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide. In addition to the ice component there is also dust, non-volatile light hydrocarbons. It begins its path behind the orbit of Neptune, and completes the turn, a little not reaching the orbit of Venus. Once in 76 years the Halley comet approaches very close to the sun. Then the ice from which the core consists begins to evaporate, picks up dust particles, stony substances and forms a delightful huge tail directed from the sun. Large particles in the course of the flight are gradually separated, form a meteor shower. Twice a year, in May and October, when our planet passes through the orbit of Halley's comet, the inhabitants of the Earth can observe this delightful sight.

Halley's comet is interesting not only for scientists, but also for astrologers and magicians. Superstitious people associate her appearance with all sorts of cataclysms. So, according to myths and legends, thirteen and a half thousand years ago there was an apocalypse, as a result of which highly developed civilizations were lost, and mankind returned to wild existence without writing, speech, tools. According to the beliefs of a number of astrologers and their calculations of the dates of the passage of the comet past the Earth, it was at that time that the heavenly body was in close proximity to our planet. Their theories they prove by the provision of "evidence", or rather an indication of events that occurred shortly before the appearance of this space inhabitant: the earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 and Sicily in 1908, in Armenia, Mexico, Uzbekistan in 1984 - 1988.

In addition, mystics tend to believe that significant negative events in the life of mankind and the Earth occur with a certain periodicity, and they are connected with the place of the orbit where at this moment is Halley's comet. 2012 and the conflict of Japan with China, they associate with 1936, the coming to power in Germany of the Nazis and the civil war in Spain, so in these years the comet was at one point. They argue that the fault of World War II is the passage of a mysterious comet in the vicinity of the warlike Pluto. Similar events they predict in 2017 - 2021 years.

Be that as it may, but soon the inhabitants of the Earth will have to be convinced of the correctness or mistakenness of these beliefs - the predicted difficult years are very close, and the Halley comet itself will visit us in 2061.