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99% | 7 | Exact Match! | ||||||
noun • a spear with three prongs | ||||||||
29% | 8 | Circular orbit within another circular orbit | ||||||
noun • a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid | ||||||||
29% | 6 | The elliptical orbit of Halley's Comet takes it beyond the orbit of this planet. | ||||||
noun • English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742) | ||||||||
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