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Halley's comet renamed after a medieval monk?
Who truly identified the regular return of Halley's Comet? A common misconception attributes this discovery to astronomer ...
Evidence from medieval chronicles suggests that the periodic nature of Halley’s Comet was recognized centuries earlier than previously believed.
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Halley wasn't the first to figure out the famous comet. An 11th-century monk did it first, new research suggests.
Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its movements through space, but he wasn't the first to discover its periodic orbit past Earth, new research suggests.
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