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

Type of: astronomer, stargazer, uranologist

Encyclopedia: Halley, Peter

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