Comets Appeared in China

Timeline of Comets appeared in China[edit]

Year BC/AD	Date of Last Perihelion	Visible Duration	Distance at Perihelion	Description
240 BC	15 May	25 May - 15 May		First confirmed sighting.
163 BC	20 May	12 November, 164 BC - 28 September 163 BC		Seen by Babylonians.
87 BC	15 August	6 August - 19 August		Seen by the Babylonians and Chinese.
12 BC	8 October	August - 10 October	0.16 AU	Watched by Chinese for two months.
66	26 January	25 January - 26 January		‘A comet of the kind called Xiphias, because their tails appear to represent the blade of a sword’
141	25 March	22 March - 25 March		Described by the Chinese as bluish-white in colour
218	6 April	6 April - 17 May		Described by the Roman historian Dion Cassius as ‘a very fearful star’.
295	7 April	7 April - 20 April		Seen in China, but not spectacular.
374	13 February	13 February - 16 February	0.09 AU	Comet passed 13.5 million kilometres from Earth.
451	3 July	28 June - 3 July		Appeared before the defeat of Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons.
530	15 November	27 September - 15 November		Noted in China and Europe, but not spectacular.
607	26 March	15 March - 26 March	0.09 AU	Comet passed 13.5 million kilometres from Earth.
684	26 November	2 October - 26 November		First known Japanese records of the comet. Seen in Europe and depicted 800 years later in the Nuremberg Chronicle.
760	10 June	20 May - 10 June		Seen in China, at the same time as another comet.
837	25 February	25 February - 28 February	0.03 AU	Closest-ever approach to the Earth (5 million km). Tail stretched halfway across the sky. Appeared as bright as Venus.
912	27 July	18 July - 27 July		Seen briefly in China and Japan.
989	2 September	2 September - 5 September		Seen in China, Japan, and (possibly) Korea.
1066	25 March	January - 25 March	0.10 AU	Seen for over two months in China.
1145	19 April	15 April - 19 April		Depicted on the Eadwine Psalter, with the remark that such ‘hairy stars’ appeared rarely, ‘and then as a portent’.
1222	10 September	10 September - 28 September		Described by Japanese astronomers as being ‘as large as the half Moon . . . Its colour was white but its rays were red’.
1301	22 October	22 October - 31 October		Seen by Giotto di Bondone and included in his painting The Adoration of the Magi. Chinese astronomers compared its brilliance to that of the first-magnitude star Procyon.
1378	9 November	9 November - 14 November		Passed within 10 degrees of the north celestial pole, more northerly than at any time during the past 2000 years. This is the last appearance of the comet for which Oriental records are better than Western ones.
1456	8 January	8 January - 9 June		Observed in Italy by Paolo Toscanelli, who said its head was ‘as large as the eye of an ox’, with a tail ‘fan-shaped like that of a peacock’. Arabs said the tail resembled a Turkish scimitar. Turkish forces attacked Belgrade.
1531	26 August	26 August		Seen by Peter Apian, who noted that its tail always pointed away from the Sun. This sighting was included in Halley’s table.
1607	27 October	27 October		Seen by Johannes Kepler. This sighting was included in Halley’s table.
1682	15 September	15 September		Seen by Edmond Halley at Islington.
1758	13 March	13 March - 25 December		Return predicted by Halley. First seen by Johann Palitzsch on 1758 December 25.
1835	16 November	August - 16 November		First seen at the Vatican Observatory in August. Studied by John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope.
1910	20 April	20 April - 20 May		Photographed for the first time. Earth passed through the comet’s tail on May 20.
1986	9 February	9 February	0.586 AU	Reached perihelion on February 9, closest to Earth (63 million km) on April 11. Nucleus photographed by the European space probe Giotto and the Russian probes Vega 1 and 2.
2061	28 July	28 July 2061		Next return of Halley's comet.

13 AD - A comet appeared in China.
57/58 AD - Comet appeared in China, it was not recorded and unknown comet
60 AD - A comet appeared in China and Rome. it was seen for 6 months in great brilliancy.
68 AD- A comet appeared.
72 AD - A comet appeared in Libra, and was seen for 40 days.
77 AD - A comet appeared in China.
81 AD - A comet appeared in China.
109 AD - A comet appeared in China.
149 AD - A comet appeared in China.
160 AD - A comet appeared.
165 AD - A comet appeared.
182 AD - A comet appeared in China.
188 AD - A comet appeared in China.
195 AD - A comet appeared.
206 AD - A comet appeared in China, near the Polar star.
212 AD - A comet appeared in China.
236 AD - Two comets appear in China.
277 AD - A comet appeared in China.
305 AD - A comet appeared in China.
336 AD - A very large comet appeared in China.
377 AD - A comet appeared in China.
400 AD - A large comet appeared in China.
408 AD - A comet appeared during a Solar eclipse.
410 AD - A comet appeared.
Summer to Autumn 412 AD - A comet was seen in Capricorn from Summer till the end of Autumn.
413 AD - A comet was seen in Virgo for 4 months.
Summer till September, 418 AD - A comet was seen from Summer till September.
434 AD - A comet appeared.
442 AD - A comet appeared.
448 AD - A comet appeared.
450 AD - A comet appeared.
December, 535 AD - A comet seen in Sagittarius.
560 AD - A comet appeared, and was observed for a year.
601 AD - A comet was seen for several days.
729 AD - Two comets appear this year, one before sunrise, the other after sunset.
31 January, 838- A comet appeared in Scorpio in the Evening.
April, 839 AD - A comet appeared in Aries.
840 AD - A comet appeared.
January/February,841- A comet appeared in Aquarius.
January/February,842- A comet appeared in Aquarius.
844 AD - A comet appeared above Venus.
874 AD - A large red comet appeared.
875 AD- A bearded comet appeared in France and China.
13 February, 882 AD - A comet appeared.
906 AD - A very red comet appeared, and continued visible for half a year.
923 AD - A comet appeared in China.
930 AD - A comet appeared in Cancer.
1–15 November, 941 AD - A comet appeared during first 15 days of November, 941.
942 AD - A comet appeared.
962 AD - A large comet appeared.
August, 975 to March 976 AD - A comet appeared in August 975, and continued visible Eight months.
976 AD - A large red comet appeared.
979 AD - A comet appears in Virgo.

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