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Edmund Halley (1656-1742) would have been surprised if he could have read the article ”Failing Science” in the Aug. 7 Sunday section. There we are informed ” . . . the comet (named after him) appeared the first time in 1910 . . . ” Halley sighted the comet in 1682 and predicted its return in 1758. It appeared again in the mid-19th Century, around the birth of Mark Twain, and again in 1910, the year Twain died.
Project 2061, named for the year of the next return of Halley`s, will need to determine if the study of comets should be included as part of scientific literacy.
