The Sky at Night · SEASON 30
Halley's Comet: The Encounter
Episode 3 · 1986-03-13
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
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.
Season 30 episodes
1. Our Nearest Star1986-01-11
2. Voyager to Uranus1986-02-04
3. Halley's Comet: The Encounter1986-03-13
4. The Spring Sky1986-04-06
5. The Story of Satum1986-04-27
6. Halley - The End of the Tale?1986-05-25
7. The Summer Sky1986-06-29
8. The Death of a Star1986-07-27
9. The Innermost Planet1986-08-17
10. The Furthest Depths of the Universe1986-09-14
11. The Autumn Sky1986-10-12
12. Cosmic Lawn Sprinkler1986-11-10
13. The Galilean Moons1986-12-21
