Word: halley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What has plagued navigators is that variation is not only different for different localities, but that from year to year the variation varies because the magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken...
...made three of the greatest discoveries in human history: the Law of Gravitation, the system of mathematics called calculus, and the fact that white light is a composite of colored light. But he did not publish his Principia until two decades later, and then only at the urging of Halley, the comet man. After finishing the Principia, Newton almost lost his mind, but recovered and retained his faculties until he died at 85. But for the. last 40 years of his life his contributions to physics and mathematics were almost...
...Intelligencer waited a week longer it would have been a dunce to declare no news. Last week was one of the newsiest weeks for small-town editors since Halley's Comet...
...blob hanging in the northwestern sky for a few minutes after sundown. The other was the comet found two months ago by Leslie C. Peltier, famed amateur of Delphos, Ohio (TIME, June 7). Laymen who hunted out the Peltier object, hoping to see a big, bright feather similar to Halley's comet in 1910, were disappointed. Unless they had binoculars they saw nothing but a blur, no brighter than the dimmest member of the Big Dipper...
...super-nova recently discovered by astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory was a (1 gigantic star explosion, 2 new constellation of five large stars, 3 second Milky Way, 4 part of Halley's comet, 5 meteorite which fell in the Pacific...