Thursday 20 November 2014

When Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet during…

When Earth passed through the tail of Halley’s Comet during its 1910 approach, there was public fear that a gas discovered in the tail, cyanogen, would destroy all life on the planet, leading to people buying gas masks and “Anti-Comet Pills.”






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