Comets, Shooting Stars And Asteroids

Here is an image of a stamp designed after "Earth," from "The Four Elements," by Austrian artist Ernst Steiner (1864-1934), engraved by Wolfgang Seidel, with photogravure, and issued by Liechtenstein as one of a four stamp set on December 5, 1994, Scott No. 1039, plus a detail of the stamp showing a comet.

- nethryk

Norfolk Island :
se-tenant horizontal pair.

(Slightly incorrect?)
The comet does not burn, but emits dust and gas as it nears the sun?
Tail should be white?

Just discovered:
1962 Canada
Interplanetary postage.

Currency tablet 30 Novas.
(SG0034td error inscribed as Haleys Comet)

(This was the then current rate (1962) for packages
from 1.5 light years, no greater than half of a zoylin in weight)
Cancelled by laser.

SG5515 (1984) T2190 15k venus halley's comet project

Comet Arend–Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956 by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the comet and a telescope, designed by Belgian artist Oscar Hector Bonnevalle (1920-1993), combined engraved by Constant Spinoy and photogravure, and issued by Belgium on May 28, 1966 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the discovery and to publicize the Royal Observatory of Belgium, Scott No. 669.

- nethryk

Can't find this Brit stamp in my 2003 Scotts, but I assume those two fiery balls are comets or meteors.

Nice topic !
Chile - Souvenir sheet



"El caer no ha de quitar la gloria de haber subido" (spanish poet Calderón de la Barca) = "The fall will not remove the glory of having uploaded" (Tribute to the victims of the Challenger)

jamesw
Your stamp is part of a set of four issued in 1986 ( Great Britain Scott 1133-1136) when the Halley's comet last appear.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a telescope, the National Astronomical Observatory, located on top of Cerro Calan in Las Condes, and a comet, printed by lithogravure, and issued by Chile on August 31, 1972 to publicize the observatory, which is operated by the Astromomy Department of the University of Chile, Scott No. 426.

- nethryk

Halley's Comet, printed by photogravure, and issued by India on November 10, 1985 to publicize the 19th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, in New Delhi Scott No. 1101.

- nethryk

Halley's Comet, designed by Hungarian artist Gyula Laszlo Vasarhelyi (1929- ), printed by lithography, and issued by Saint Vincent on April 14, 1986, Scott No. 918.

- nethryk

Here is an image of a stamp marking the passage of Halley's Comet, designed and engraved by Claude Jumelet, and issued by Monaco on May 22, 1986, Scott No. 1544.

- nethryk

Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (1831-1904) was a Russian astronomer who studied the theory of comet tails, meteors and meteor showers. The crater Bredikhin on the Moon is named after him. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Bredikhin, and depicting a comet over an astronomical observatory, designed by Russian artist Yury Romanovich Grzheshkevich (1921- ), printed by lithography, and issued by Russia (USSR) on October 30, 1956 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the astronomer's birth, Scott No. 1887, Zagorski No. 1866, plus a photo of Fyodor Bredikhin which was probably a model for this stamp's design.

- nethryk

Falling of Sikhote-Alin Meteor - 1947



Sikhote-Alin an iron meteorite fell on 12.2.1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in southeastern Siberia.
About 70 tonnes of material survived the fiery passage through the atmosphere and reached the Earth.