{"id":230969,"date":"2026-02-10T02:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/halleys-comet-has-the-wrong-name-new-research-suggests"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:35:37","slug":"halleys-comet-has-the-wrong-name-new-research-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/halleys-comet-has-the-wrong-name-new-research-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Halley\u2019s Comet Has the Wrong Name, New Research Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/halleys-comet-has-the-wrong-name-new-research-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evidence from medieval chronicles suggests that the periodic nature of Halley\u2019s Comet was recognized centuries earlier than previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence from medieval chronicles suggests that the periodic nature of Halley\u2019s Comet was recognized centuries earlier than previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}