Comet Halley will return to the inner solar system in the year 2061.
There is a site for monitoring comets. It's very handy for predicting when and where to best view various comets. Here's the site: Comet Observation Home Page. Lots of info there! According to this site, Comet NEAT (C/2001 Q4) will be closest to the Sun this coming (northern) spring. From my latitude it will be best visible in evening in early May low in the SSW sky. It might be around first magnitude. We'll see.
Comet NEAT (C/2001 V1) 3-1-2003
Same Comet NEAT (C/2001 V1) passing very near an active Sun in a SOHO image. Remember this? 2-18-2003.
P.S. Comets are named for their discoverer(s). If a comet is found by other means, the name reflects that. For instance, all these comets "NEAT" were discovered by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program which is carried out at Palomar, California and Maui, Hawaii Observatories. Asteroid/planetoid buffs and Near-Earth-Object trackers will love their site! Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
And all those LINEAR comets? Yep, asteroid tracking program. This time it's MIT (with funding help from NASA and the USAF). The LINEAR Program.
