The Sky at Night
Season 30 Episode 3 - Halley's Comet: The Encounter
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
Tonight's news from the comet comes as Europe's Giotto spacecraft plunges deep into the glowing dust and gases of its coma. At 47 miles per second, every grain of dust strikes like a bullet. Will Giotto be destroyed by that deadly hail, or will it win through, to send back the first pictures of the mysterious object at the heart of Halley's Comet? Horizon and The Sky at Night join forces, with Patrick Moore reporting from mission control at Darmstadt in West Germany, and James Burke at Greenwich, where Edmond Halley was Britain's second Astronomer Royal.
Episodes in Season 30
1
Our Nearest Star
2
Voyager to Uranus
3
Halley's Comet: The Encounter
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4
The Spring Sky
5
The Story of Satum
6
Halley - The End of the Tale?
7
The Summer Sky
8
The Death of a Star
9
The Innermost Planet
10
The Furthest Depths of the Universe
11
The Autumn Sky
12
Cosmic Lawn Sprinkler
13
