UNIVERSE
METEOROIDS
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Question
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Edmond Hailey discovered Hailey’s ____
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asteroid
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meteoroid
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comet
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meteor
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Halley found the similarities in the orbits of bright comets reported in 1531, 1607, and 1682 and he suggested that the trio was actually a single comet making return trips. Halley correctly predicted the comet would return in 1758. History’s first known “periodic” comet was later named in his honor.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most famous of all comets was certainly seen by the English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley when it flew round the Sun in 1682, but he did not discover it.
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