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Celestial Body Visible From Earth Every 76 Years Crossword Clue

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34%8From the Latin for “high”, elevation above a datum line/sea level; angular distance of a celestial body above Earth’s horizon; or, by extension, loftiness of rank or any great height
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• elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface

• the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)

• angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

33%5 A celestial body such as Swift-Tuttle that led Giovanni Schiaparelli to discover in 1865 that said body was the source of the Perseids
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• (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

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