{"id":3514,"date":"2026-01-25T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2026-01-halley-comet-wrongly-11th-century-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T03:01:36","slug":"2026-01-halley-comet-wrongly-11th-century-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2026-01-halley-comet-wrongly-11th-century-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Halley&#8217;s Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Halley&#8217;s Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer<\/div>\n<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet that now bears his name. This is shown by research conducted by, among others, Professor Simon Portegies Zwart. It was the monk Eilmer of Malmesbury who, as early as the 11th century, linked two observations of the comet.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-halley-comet-wrongly-11th-century.html\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <\/p>\n<div>The latest science news on astronomy, astrobiology,  and space exploration from Phys.org.<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>SPACEPERIUM CORPS &#038; RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Please comment below with research and links for fellow members to conduct further research into this area.<br \/>\nYou must be registered and signed into SPACEPERIUM BLOG in order to leave your comment and get credited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halley&#8217;s Comet wrongly named: 11th-century English monk predates British astronomer The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceperium-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}