Cometa Mark Twain and Halley
In mid-November 1835, Halley reached the Perihelium Comet, the closest point to the Sun in orbit and best visible from Earth. Two weeks later, on November 30, Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born, a writer who would later become an unknown Mark Twain. Aware of the coincidence, he wrote in 1909, when he was missing a year to complete the comet's orbit of about 76 years: “I arrived with comet Halley in 1835. He will come back next year and I hope to go with him. Surely the Almighty said: Here are a couple of rare and incomprehensible phenomena that have come together, they have to go at once.”
In 1910 the comet Halley reappeared in the sky and reached the perihelion on April 20. Twain died the next day.
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