(Alex gives the clue from the Mark Twain house in Hartford.) Twain was fond of saying, "I came in with" this celestial object in 1835, "and I expect to go out with it"; and in 1910 he did, passing away in this very bed
Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and 
he predicted that he would "go ... His sister Margaret (18331839) died when he 
was three, and his brother .....