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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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
- A
sungrazing comet is a
comet that p****es
extremely close to the Sun at
perihelion –
sometimes within a few
thousand kilometres of the Sun's surface. Although...
- 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...
-
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...
- A
comet is a type of
firework star
fired into the sky from the
ground which leaves a long
trail of
sparks in its wake as it
flies through the air. A low...
- Look up
Comet or
comet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
comet is a
small astronomical body
which orbits the sun.
Comet or The
Comet may also refer...
