Halley's comet : facts and folklore [kasetvideo]

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Comet Halley : once in a lifetime/ by 216763 Littman, Mark, Yeomans, Donald K.

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Comet Halley : once in a lifetime/ [kasetvideo]

Subjects: “…Halley's comet…”

Eponyms in science terms (Epistemological aspect) by Koshlakov Dmitriy, Khokhlova Marina, Tsareva Galina, Garbuzova Galina

“…In addition, the paper gives the analysis of some other examples, in particular, related to such terms as Halley's comet, L'Hospital rule, Russell's paradox. It is noted that the fact of discovering some scientific object by one or another scientist in general is not the only reason for forming an eponym containing the name of this scientist. …”
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A Catalogue of Meteor Showers and Storms in Korean, Japanese, Chinese Histories by Sang-Hyeon Ahn

“…Contrary to previous investigations, there has been no nodal shift of the -Aquarids and the Orionids, whose mother comet is the Halley's comet. The oldest record of the Leonids is probably that of 288 AD, instead of 902 AD. …”
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Tähistaeval põhinevatest uskumustest III Vana-Hiina by Enn Kasak

“…There are also records about ceremonies dedicated to solar eclipses. Halley's comet has been sighted and recorded since 12 BC at its every passage, but irregularly already since 240 BC. …”
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European Venus Explorer: An in-situ mission to Venus using a balloon platform by Chassefiere, E, Korablev, O, Imamura, T, Baines, K, Wilson, C, Titov, D, Aplin, K, Balint, T, Blamont, J, Cochrane, C, Ferencz, C, Ferri, F, Gerasimov, M, Leitner, J, Lopez-Moreno, J, Marty, B, Martynov, M, Pogrebenko, S, Rodin, A, Whiteway, J, Zasova, L, Team, EVE

“…For this mission, CNES developed and fully tested a 9 m diameter super-pressure balloon, but finally replaced it by a smaller one due to mass constraints (when it was decided to send Vega to Halley's Comet). Furthermore, several kinds of balloons have been proposed for planetary exploration [Blamont, J., in: Maran, S.P. …”

Space experiment on the “catching” of astromaterials in near space to search for extraterrestrial life by A. P. Vidmachenko, A. F. Steklov

“…At the same time, it will not be necessary to fly away for millions of kilometers, or to wait tens of years to study matter, for example, the nucleus of Halley's comet. After all, for this purpose, it is possible to carry out “catching” of matter from the nucleus of this comet annually in April and in October, when the Earth, moving in its orbit, meets with the cometary substance under the action of meteor showers Lyrids and Orionids. …”
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Nobel Prize Level Scientific Discoveries of a Heir of Zaporizhian Cossacks by F. V. Motsnyi

“…Gamow has shown a great interest in scientific research, using a microscope to look for erythrocytes and a telescope to observe the Halley comet. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Leningrad State University, where he followed classes of Professor O. …”
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