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Distances and speeds are estimates based on this data. It measures nine miles by five miles/15 km by 8 km wide, which may be nothing on the mega-comet’s estimated 80 miles/128 km diameter, but it’s. Its most recent pass by the sun was in 1986 and it will not fly through the inner solar. Its most famous appearance was in 1066 AD when it was seen right. 1070-80 AD) is really impressive, not only in size, but also because of the figures and details depicted in the work. Halleys Comet is currently more than 2 billion miles away from Earth, which is farther away than Neptune. *This Interactive 3D Simulation is built on data provided by NASA JPL HORIZONS database for solar system objects and International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center. Halley’s Comet is the most famous comet of all. Halleys HAL-lee Comet has been know since at least 240 BC and possibly since 1059 BC. This one has a nucleus of about 15 × 8 × 8 Kilometer, or 9 x 5 x 5 Miles. At the top of the comet is the Nucleus, which is where all of the dust and radiation is coming from. With Leonard, you can see the dust sort of radiating off of the comet. The closer it is, the larger the tail is as there is more radiation hitting the comet. It depends on how close it is to its parent star. The comet will lose a little bit of trapped gas and dust, and it will come off as a beautiful tail of small particles. When a comet comes close to the sun, radiation is blasted at the comet from the sun. Halley who was the first to suggest that comets were natural phenomena of the solar system, in orbit around the Sun.