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The fear of Halley’s Comet in 1910 is preserved in a cave in southern #PuertoRico: https://bcra.org.uk/pub/docs/downloads.html?f=cks158061.f -> In 2024, we solved an astronomy-related cave-art mystery dating back more than 100 years: https://x.com/ProfAbelMendez/status/2112923778405581041 / The Comet Panic of 1910, Revisited: https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-comet-panic-of-1910-revisited/ - a recent discovery in a remote Puerto Rican cave sheds new light on the hysteria that greeted Halley’s Comet a century ago.