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41% | 5 | The date of the first spacecraft landing on a comet (Rosetta mission) | ||||||
noun • the day in 2001 when Arab suicide bombers hijacked United States airliners and used them as bombs | ||||||||
40% | 12 | The first person to calculate a comet's orbit | ||||||
noun • English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) | ||||||||
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