***This means that Earth has no chance of passing through the comet’s tail,***
But in 1910,the earth was to pass through the tail of Haley’s Comet, and cyanide gas in the tail was going to wipe out all life on earth and WE WERE ALL GONNA DIE!
Enterprising people began to sell “Comet pills”, and gas masks, and the people bought them up! Some people actually committed suicide rather than die by being gassed.
And like the Coming Ice Age, Hole in the Ozone, and now Glo-Bull Warming scare this too will pass away and some new thing will scare the U-no-Watt out of the young people.