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Newton contemporary
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halley
Alternative clues for the word halley
- English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
- Britain's astronomer royal from 1720 to 1742
- Comet man
- British astronomer who predicted a 1758 return
- British astronomer with a comet named after him
- Britain's second Astronomer Royal
- "A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets" author
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Halley is a lunar impact crater that is intruding into the southern wall of the walled plain Hipparchus . To the southwest of Halley is the large crater Albategnius , and due east lies the slightly smaller Hind . On the 1645 map by Michael van Langren , ...