Halley Discovery Crossword Clue

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	noun • (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
	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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