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Halley's Comet Has a Bad Name. It Was First Described by a Medieval Monk
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The first person to see the comet now known as 1P/Halley was an 11th-century monk. New research from Leiden University in the Netherlands has found that the scholar saw it twice in the Middle Ages, long before English astronomer Edmund Halley.
In the history of astronomy, some truths seem engraved in marble. One of them is that Halley's famous comet bears the name of British astronomer Edmond Halley because it is he who, in 1705, first understood his mechanism. Thanks to Newtonian gravity, he predicted that she would return every 76 years. [...] More
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