2061: Odyssey Three

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Some suggest these comets could have evolved from members of the Oort Cloud, or from Centaurs (objects that generally have a closest approach between Jupiter and the Kuiper Belt.) Alternatively, HFCs could have come from somewhere just beyond Neptune. Sending spacecraft to Halley's comet

a b Sagdeev, Roald Z.; Elyasberg, Pavel E.; Moroz, Vasily I. (1988). "Is the nucleus of Comet Halley a low density body?". Nature. 331 (6153): 240–242. Bibcode: 1988Natur.331..240S. doi: 10.1038/331240a0. S2CID 4335780. Botley, Cicely M. (1971). "The Legend of 1P/Halley 1456". The Observatory. 91: 125–126. Bibcode: 1971Obs....91..125B. Stephenson, F. Richard; Yau, Kevin K. C.; Hunger, Hermann (1985). "Records of Halley's Comet on Babylonian tablets". Nature. 314 (6012): 587–592. Bibcode: 1985Natur.314..587S. doi: 10.1038/314587a0. S2CID 33251962. The people believe that it indicates calamity such as war, fire, pestilence, and a change of dynasty. In some places on certain days the doors were unopened for half a day, no water was carried and many did not even drink water as it was rumoured that pestilential vapour was being poured down upon the earth from the comet." [107] Son of Charlemagne: A Contemporary Life of Louis the Pious. Translated by Cabaniss, Allen. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. 1961. p.113. ISBN 978-0-8156-2031-0.Two U.S. Space Shuttle missions— STS-51-L and STS-61-E—had been scheduled to observe Halley's Comet from low Earth orbit. The STS-51-L mission carried the Shuttle-Pointed Tool for Astronomy ( SPARTAN-203) satellite, also called the Halley's Comet Experiment Deployable (HCED). [130] The mission ended in disaster when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in flight, killing all seven astronauts onboard. [131] Scheduled for March 1986, STS-61-E was a Columbia mission carrying the ASTRO-1 platform to study the comet, [132] but the mission was canceled following the Challenger disaster and ASTRO-1 would not fly until late 1990 on STS-35. [133] After 1986 [ edit ] Halley's Comet observed in 2003 at 28 au from the Sun

Depicted on the Eadwine Psalter, with the remark that such "hairy stars" appeared rarely, "and then as a portent". Rayner, John D. (1998). A Jewish Understanding of the World. Berghahn Books. pp.108–111. ISBN 1-57181-973-8.In the years that followed, an era of unequaled peace and prosperity flourished in the silent presence of the aliens. Man continued to expand slowly into the solar system, careful not to violate the alien’s injunction--until a report is received that a spaceship has crashed into Europa’s ocean and is floating helplessly. Heywood Floyd, head of the American contingent of the 2010 Leonov expedition--still hale and hearty after all these years because of the age-retarding effects of his zero-gravity orbiting rest home -- finds himself thrown into the action when the Halley’s comet expedition on which he has been invited is diverted onto a high-speed sprint to Europa and a rescue attempt. Other notable cometary missions include NASA's Stardust (which captured samples of comet 81P/Wild and returned them to Earth), NASA's Deep Impact (which deliberately sent an impactor into 9P/Tempel on July 4, 2005), and the European Space Agency's Philae (which landed on Comet 67P in 2014.)

Reached perihelion on 9 February, closest to Earth (63 million km) on 10 April. Nucleus photographed by the European space probe Giotto and the Soviet probes Vega 1 and 2. The elevators are major pieces of technology in the sequel novel 3001, and settings of much of the latter novel's action. The intervening implication is that over the next millennium, humanity finds other large sources of diamond in the Lucifer–Jupiter system, precipitate which resulted from the transformation of the latter into the former, and mines this diamond material, using it for (previously impossible) construction projects. With the revival of hard scifi space film genre with Gravity, Interstellar and The Martian both critically and financially after the disastrous flop that was Mission to Mars, I think this would be a good time to do another Odyssey film. An interview in 1910, of someone who was a teenager at the time of the 1835 apparition had this to say: [95]The different scenarios also have an impact on how old the population is. One way of assessing this change is to look at the number of people of working age for every one person who is retired. This measure is called the “potential support ratio” and reveals the challenge for pension, healthcare and social care systems from population ageing. It is a relatively crude measure, but does serve to highlight how the age composition of populations changes over time. In the end, Heywood Floyd joins David Bowman and Hal (from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY) on a strange mission in which Clarke’s imaginative time machine moves farther into the future, to 3001, to an ominous event that undoubtedly means another sequel. or magazine accounts of the progress of the United States and Soviet space programs in the years 1960 to 1985 as a way to measure the degree to which Clarke draws on technology already in use and technology yet to be developed at the time 2061: Odyssey Three was written. Twain died on 21 April 1910, the day following the comet's subsequent perihelion. [113] The 1985 fantasy film The Adventures of Mark Twain was inspired by the quotation. a b c d e f g Brandt, John C. "McGraw−Hill AccessScience: Halley's Comet". McGraw-Hill . Retrieved 27 November 2009.