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Halley

[hal-ee]

noun

  1. Edmund or Edmond, 1656–1742, English astronomer.



Halley

/ ˈhælɪ /

noun

  1. Edmund. 1656–1742, English astronomer and mathematician. He predicted the return of the comet now known as Halley's comet , constructed charts of magnetic declination, and produced the first wind maps

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Games like The Last of Us, partly moulded by writers like Halley Gross, boast layered female characters at their core.

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Halley's Comet orbits the Sun in the opposite direction from Earth and we cross this orbit twice a year, the other time being early May, which gives us the Eta Aquariids meteor shower.

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In 1990, he created his own one-man show, “Halley’s Comet,” in which he played a man looking back across the century, and which he toured as recently as 2017.

For decades, he traveled around the United States performing a one-man show he had penned about an 87-year-old man awaiting the return of Halley’s Comet.

Scientists at the British research base at Halley will visit to verify the size and health of the colony.

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