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Comet
Comet Com"et, n. [L. cometes, cometa, from Gr. ? comet, prop.
long-haired, fr. ? to wear long hair, fr. ? hair, akin to L.
coma: cf. F. com[`e]te.] (Astron.)
A member of the solar system which usually moves in an
elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its
perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at
its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the
nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more
of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in
Appendix.
Meaning of Comet from wikipedia
- A
comet is an icy,
small Solar System body that
warms and
begins to
release gases when p****ing
close to the Sun, a
process called outg****ing. This produces...
- Halley's
Comet,
Comet Halley, or
sometimes simply Halley,
officially designated 1P/Halley, is the only
known short-period
comet that is
consistently visible...
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Comet Hale–Bopp (formally
designated C/1995 O1) is a
comet that was one of the most
widely observed of the 20th
century and one of the
brightest seen for...
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Havilland DH.106
Comet is the world's
first commercial jet airliner.
Developed and
manufactured by de
Havilland in the
United Kingdom, the
Comet 1 prototype...
- a
periodic comet with an
orbital period of 71 years.
Comets with an
orbital period of 20–200 years are
referred to as Halley-type
comets. It is one of...
-
great comet is a
comet that
becomes exceptionally bright.
There is no
official definition;
often the term is
attached to
comets such as Halley's
Comet, which...
- The
Comet tank or Tank, Cruiser,
Comet I (A34) was a
British cruiser tank that
first saw use near the end of the
Second World War,
during the
Western Allied...
-
Night of the
Comet is a 1984
American science fiction comedy horror film
written and
directed by Thom Eberhardt. It
stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert...
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Comet Kohoutek (formally
designated C/1973 E1 and
formerly as 1973 XII and 1973f) is a
comet that p****ed
close to the Sun
towards the end of 1973. Early...
-
Comet Lake is Intel's
codename for its 10th
generation Core processors. They are
manufactured using Intel's
third 14 nm
Skylake process revision, succeeding...
