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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
A celestial body, observed only in that part of its orbit that is relatively close to the sun, having a head consisting of a solid nucleus surrounded by a nebulous coma up to 2.
adj - a celestial body [n -S] : COMETARY
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| A cleanser from Prestige Brands |
| In August 1986, a 24-year-old Cal Tech student discovered one of these, so it was named for her |
| One of these, named for Johann Franz Encke, returns every 3.3 years |
| In April 1997 one of these named Hale-Bopp will be among the brightest objects in the night sky |
| In TV ads in the '60s, Josephine the Plumber used this "out of this world" cleanser |
| Last seen in 1997, another 2,400 years will pass before the next visiti of Hale-Bopp, one of these |
| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the JPL in Pasadena.) Scientists at JPL are learning to navigate a vessel close to this type of celestial body, Latin for "long-haired star" |
| One of these seen in 1769 had a tail estimated to be about 40 million miles long |
| One of these discovered by Giovanni Donati in 1858 has a tail about 45 million miles long |
| In 1993 Eugene & Carolyn Shoemaker & David Levy discovered a highly fragmented one of these |
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| A celestial body, observed only in that part of its orbit that is relatively close to the sun, having a head consisting of a solid nucleus surrounded by a nebulous coma up to 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) in diameter and an elongated curved vapor tail arising from the coma when sufficiently close to the sun. Comets are thought to consist chiefly of ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, and water. |
| a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a tail of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun. |
| (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit |
| A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a tail of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun. |
| an object that moves around the sun, usually at a great distance from it, that is seen on rare occasions from the earth as a bright line in the sky |
| a body of rock and ice that travels around the sun and that, as it nears the sun, develops a long tail of small pieces that can be seen |
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A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind acting upon the nucleus of the comet. Comet nuclei range from a few hundred metres to tens of kilometres across and are composed of loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles. The coma may be up to 15 times the Earth's diameter, while the tail may stretch one astronomical unit. If sufficiently bright, a comet may be seen from the Earth without the aid of a telescope and may subtend an arc of 30° (60 Moons) across the sky. Comets have been observed and recorded since ancient times by many cultures. * Comets usually have highly eccentric elliptical orbits, and they have a wide range of orbital periods, ranging from several years to potentially several millions of years. Short-period comets |