Several members of the Kreutz family have become Great Comets, occasionally visible near the Sun in the daytime sky.

Within a few months of joining The Comets, Pompilli had become the band's most visible member ( aside from Haley himself ), becoming the focus of " Rudy's Rock ", a show-stopping instrumental co-written by Pompilli and Haley that debuted in the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock.

Comets are most interesting when their nucleus is bright and they display a long tail, which to be seen sometimes requires a large field of view best provided by small telescopes or binoculars.

Comets are assumed to orbit other stars, but they are far too small for all current methods of detecting extrasolar planets.

Comets and other icy outer-solar-system bodies are thought to contain large amounts of complex carbon compounds ( such as tholins ) formed by these processes, darkening surfaces of these bodies.

Comets are believed to have two separate points of origin in the Solar System.

Comets pass from the scattered disc into the realm of the outer planets, becoming what are known as centaurs.

The Comets, featuring musicians who performed with Haley in 1954 – 1955, reunited in 1987 and are still touring the world as of 2007, playing showrooms in the United States and Europe.

Both Rappa and Lane's bands have, from time to time, recruited other former Comets for their line-ups ( for example, in 2005, Rappa joined forces with Joey Welz ), but for the most part the bandleaders are the only regular members who have worked with Bill Haley directly.

Several bands patterning themselves after The Comets are also active in Europe, including Bill Haley's New Comets in Germany.

Comets and Cleansweeps are cheaper than the Nimbuses and are more common ; however, Cleansweeps are considered still decent brooms.

In 1994, a meteorite known as the " Coleman meteorite " fell near the city, which is coincidental because the community schools ' mascot are the Coleman Comets.

Although the appearances by The Beatles, Elvis and The Supremes are considered the most famous rock and roll performances on Ed Sullivan, several months before Elvis debuted, Sullivan invited Bill Haley & His Comets to perform their then-current hit " Rock Around the Clock " in early August 1955.

Workington Comets are the town's professional speedway team, which competes in the British Speedway Premier League.

These are sometimes referred to as the " round body " Comets.

Comets are regularly nudged from one orbit to another when they encounter Jupiter or Saturn in close proximity.

Comets are in unstable orbits that evolve over time due to perturbations and outgassing.

" Comets and asteroids are the building blocks of our Earth and the other planets in the Solar System.

They and nine others are selected to form the Rockford Peaches, while 48 others are split among the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, and South Bend Blue Sox.

Comets are in unstable orbits that evolve over time due to perturbations and outgassing.

Comets are objects in the Solar system that exhibit a coma and / or a tail of debris pointing away from the Sun.

While comets are officially named after their discoverers, Great Comets are sometimes also referred to by the year in which they appeared great, using the formulation " The Great Comet of ...", followed by the year.

An expert on the composition and chemistry of asteroids and comets, Lewis has written such popular science books as Rain of Iron and Ice and Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets.

His 1666-68 work Theatrum Cometicum, or " Theatre of Comets ", is an illustrated anthology of 415 comets from the biblical epoch of the deluge up until 1665.

* Marsden B. G. ( 1989 ), The Sungrazing Comets Revisited, Asteroids, comets, meteors III, Proceedings of meeting ( AMC 89 ), Uppsala: Universitet, 1990, eds C. I. Lagerkvist, H. Rickman, B.

Asteroids and Comets: 68950 ( 2002 QF15 ) Orbital Information at http :// comets. universetoday. com / l / 71962 / 68950-2002-QF15

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Bill Haley's compositions included " Four Leaf Clover Blues ", " Crazy Man, Crazy ", " What ' Cha Gonna Do ", " Fractured ", " Live It Up ", " Farewell, So Long, Goodbye ", " Real Rock Drive ", " Rocking Chair on the Moon ", " Sundown Boogie ", " Birth Of The Boogie ", " Two Hound Dogs ", " Rock-A-Beatin ' Boogie ", " Hot Dog Buddy Buddy ", " R-O-C-K ", " Rudy's Rock ", " Calling All Comets ", " Tonight's the Night ", " Hook, Line and Sinker ", " Sway with Me ", " Paper Boy ( On Main Street U. S. A .)", " Skinny Minnie ", " B. B.

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

Bill Haley and his Comets performing " Rock Around the Clock " on TV in 1955

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

Bob Kobres in Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse ( 1992 ) contends that the swastika like comet on the Han Dynasty silk comet atlas was labeled a " long tailed pheasant star " ( Di-Xing ) because of its resemblance to a bird's foot or track.

Ultimately, it was Newton's friend, editor and publisher, Edmond Halley who, in his 1705 Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets, used Newton's new laws to calculate the gravitational effects of Jupiter and Saturn on cometary orbits.

Although first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights on March 20, 1954, the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version.

Haley and his Comets began performing the song on stage ( Comets bass player Marshall Lytle and drummer Dick Richards say the first performances were in Wildwood, New Jersey at Phil and Eddie's Surf Club ), but Dave Miller, his producer, refused to allow Haley to record it for his Essex Records label ( Swenson suggests a feud existed between Myers and Miller ).

Nonetheless, rumors of a 1953 demo recording by Haley persist to this day, although surviving members of the Comets deny this, as did Haley himself ( quoted in the Swenson biography ) ; a late-1960s bootleg single of the Decca Records version of " Rock Around the Clock ", with " Crazy Man, Crazy " on the B-side and carrying the Essex label, occasionally turns up for sale with the claim that it is the demo version.

These events included numerous appearances and performances by surviving members of the original Comets, including the band's induction into the Rock Walk hall of fame, a performance at the Viper Room club on the Sunset Strip, and a special performance for employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to celebrate the success of the Deep Impact space probe.

Slap-back bass, one identifying characteristic of rockabilly, was used on the Comets ' recordings of " Rocket 88 ", " Rock the Joint ", " Rock Around the Clock ", and " Shake, Rattle, and Roll ".

Prior to becoming the Comets, slapback was also used by bassist Al Rex, although to a lesser extent, on " Yodel Your Blues Away ".

Members of The Comets were commissioned to work as session musicians on many of these recordings, many of which were written or co-written by Haley and / or members of The Comets.

During this year, Haley — without the Comets — recorded a pair of demos in Phoenix, Arizona: a country-western song called " Jealous Heart " for which he was backed by a local mariachi band ( and similar in style to the earlier " Jimmy Martinez ", and late-60s-style rocker called " Rock on Baby " backed by a group called Superfine Dandelion.

The Comets continued to tour on their own during this period.

An almost completely new group of musicians, mostly British-including Pete Thomas ( saxophonist )-were assembled to perform as The Comets, and Haley appeared on many television shows as well as in the movie Blue Suede Shoes, filmed at one of his London concerts in March 1979.

Nonetheless, according to the Haley News fan club newsletter and the Haley biography Sound and Glory, planned concerts such as a fall 1980 tour of Germany, and proposed recording sessions in New York and Memphis were cancelled — including a potential reunion with past members of the Comets — and Haley returned to his home in Harlingen, Texas where he died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack on February 9, 1981.