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near-Earth comets

near-Earth comets is the plural of near-Earth comet.

Meaning of near-Earth comet

Noun

near-Earth comet (plural near-Earth comets)

  1. a comet having a period of revolution shorter than 200 years and a perihelion distance smaller than 1.3 au

Questions about near-Earth comets

What is near-Earth comets the plural of?
Near-Earth comets is the plural of near-Earth comet.

Words near near-Earth comets in the dictionary

  1. near-by
  2. near-death experience
  3. near-death experiences
  4. near-earth
  5. near-Earth comet
  6. near-Earth comets
  7. near-Earth object
  8. near-Earth objects
  9. near-endemic
  10. near-endemics
  11. near-fall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: near-Earth comets (page history and authors); near-Earth comet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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