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[[File: Babylonian tablet recording Halley's comet.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Cuneiform Tablet detailing Halley's Comet from 164]]
Humans developed systems to understand where specific bodies, i.e., stars, moons, planets, comets, and asteroids, would be to interpret and provide omens to their information to their communities to both understand the past and predict the future.<ref>For Information on observations and mathematical concepts used to determine the movement of celestial bodies in Mesopotamia, see: Ossendrijver, Mathieu. 2012. ''Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy Procedure Texts''. New York, NY: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3782-6.</ref>
