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Halley   /hˈæli/  /hˈeɪli/   Listen
Halley

noun
1.
English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742).  Synonyms: Edmond Halley, Edmund Halley.





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... China on April 2, 1066. It appeared in England about Easter Sunday, April 16, and disappeared about June 8. Professor Hind finds in ancient British and Chinese records abundant grounds for believing that this visitant was only an earlier appearance of Halley's great comet, and he traces back the appearances of this comet at its several perihelion passages to B.C. 12. The last appearance of Halley's comet was in 1835, and according to Pontecoulant's calculations, its next perihelion passage ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various


Words linked to "Halley" :   astronomer, uranologist, stargazer, Edmond Halley


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