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Medieval monk may have spotted Halley's comet first

New research suggests that an English monk identified Halley's comet as a repeating visitor nearly seven centuries before Edmond Halley received credit for the discovery. Eilmer of Malmesbury reportedly recognized the comet seen in 1066 as the same object he had observed in 989.

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