Halley is classified as a periodic or short-period comet: one with an orbit lasting 200 years or less. [45] This contrasts it with long-period comets, whose orbits last for thousands of years.

Halley's comet has a long thin orbit that stretches out past the orbit of Neptune at its furthest point and comes in closer than the orbit of Venus at its nearest point.

Nov 3, 2024 · Halley's orbit period is, on average, 76 Earth years. This corresponds to an orbital circumference around the Sun of about 7.6 billion miles (12.2 billion kilometers). The period …

Halley orbits the sun at an extreme elliptical path with its eccentricity at 0.967. Its orbit is in the opposite direction and its inclination is at 18.

“Halley” has a very elongated elliptical orbit, extending from the closest point to the Sun (perihelion) at 0.586 AU between the orbits of the planets Mercury and Venus to the farthest …

Oct 17, 2025 · Its passages have taken place every 76 years on average, but the gravitational influence of the planets on the comet’s orbit has caused the orbital period to vary from 74.5 to …

Nov 13, 2025 · Halley's Comet has an orbital period of 76 years and is next due to fly past in 2061. Halley's Comet is a comet, a celestial body that is composed of ice and rock that when it …

1P/Halley orbits the sun every 27,700 days (75.84 years), coming as close as 0.58 AU and reaching as far as 35.28 AU from the sun. Its orbit is highly elliptical. 1P/Halley is about 11.0 …

Almost the entire Halley orbit is below the plane of the ecliptic. Further, Halley revolves around its orbit in retrograde motion (the opposite sense from planet revolution).

The following chart is a 3D animated visualization of the orbit of comet 1P/Halley relative to the other major objects in the Solar System. You can access more advanced features using our …