Halley's Comet -- Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, UK - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

The waymark coordinates are for the East Walk, where GPS receivers do not work well.

Edmund Halley, the Second Royal Astronomer, deduced from earlier observations of the heavens that three comets were actually the same comet, and he predicted it would appear every 74/75 years. Although he did not live to see the reappearance (on the schedule he predicted) of the comet that is now named in his honour, Halley's comet is a worldwide event that is on every star-gazer's celestial calendar.

This plaque was erected in Westminster Abbey's East walk in 1986, on the occasion of Halley's comet's latest reappearance. It reads as follows:

"Edmund Halley 1656 to 1742

This memorial marks the comet’s return in 1986

Intercepted by the European spacecraft Kyoto built by British Aerospace

First to predict the return of the comet named after him

Second Astronomer Royal

Fellow and Secretary of the Royal Society

Sponsor of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia

Editor of Philosophical Transactions

Savilian Professor of geometry, Oxford

Oceanographer Meteorologist Geophysicist

Inventor Navigator and famed for his researches in determining longitude

He laid the actuarial foundation of Life Assurance"

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