Halley Eg

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noun • a physicist who studies astronomy
	30%	9		Device invented by Edmund Halley
noun • a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure
	30%	6		Comets like Halley are often called this, meaning 'hairy'
noun • English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)

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