hallye's comet

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hallye's comet

by heymayank08 » Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:56 am
Because Halley's comet changes orbit slightly during the seventy-six-year interval between passing close to Earth, it may veer onto a collision course with a planet sometime in the distant future


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Correct Option:- between its passes

of its passes

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by Jim@StratusPrep » Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:37 am
This sentence talks about 2 different passes by the earth. The orbit changes between 2 different passes by the earth, not as it passes one time by the earth.
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