From: hastro-l Mailing List Date: November 2023 Subject: Comet Halley in Aphel Contributed by Rob H. Van Gent According to JPL's online ephemeris app https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/ aphelion distance will be 35.1434652 au on 9 December 2023 at 1h 00.0m UT. The greatest geocentric distance, 36.1162710 au, occurred about four months ago on 29 July 2023 at 14h 14.6m UT. The next greatest geocentric distance will be 36.1122136 au on 28 July 2024 at 05h 52.4m UT. Repeating the same exercise with IMCCE's online ephemeris calculator ("Ephemerides de position") https://ssp.imcce.fr/forms/ephemeris the aphelion distance is predicted as 35.1412239 au on 7 December 2023 at 18h 17.0m UTC. Similarly, the greatest geocentric distance, 36.1140698 au, is computed to have occurred on 29 July 2023 at 14h 11.5m UTC. Aldo Vitagliano's SOLEX software http://www.solexorb.it/ predicts an aphelion distance of 35.140945 au on 7 December 2023 at 09h 36m 02s TT. The greatest geocentric distance, 36.113802 au, is computed to have occurred on 29 July 2023 at 14h 11m 43s TT.