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• A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.From the entry massive
• Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.From the entry compare
• Astronomers predicted the track of the comet.From the entry track
• Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin.From the entry extrasolar
• The upcoming flyby of Halley's comet is expected to provide new information on the nature of the comet.From the entry flyby
• The anchoring harpoons and retro-rockets did not work and the lander bounced off the comet.2015 July 31, Amina Khan, “After a bounce, Rosetta's Philae lander serves up cometary surprises”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 01 May…. From the entry stick the landing
• Depending on their orbital period, comets are classified as short or long period comets.2014, Panos Photinos, Visual Astronomy: A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry short-period comet
• For example, Halley's Comet is a short period comet, because it has a period of 76 years.2014, Panos Photinos, Visual Astronomy: A Guide to Understanding the Night Sky, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry short-period comet
• The longitude of the comet is not usually specified at a particular epoch.2011, Peter Duffett-Smith, Jonathan Zwart, “The Planets, Comets and Binary Stars”, in Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator or…. From the entry perihelion
• When the next great comet will appear no one can say.1999, Neil Bone, Observing Meteors, Comets, Supernovae and other Transient Phenomena, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN. From the entry great comet
• Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, like all comets, is a frozen chunk of leftover material from the birth of the solar system.2024 October 8, Katrina Miller, “How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
• The comet begins to melt as it nears the sun, causing the ball of ice to sprout a diffuse tail.2024 October 8, Katrina Miller, “How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
• The evidence we have for the KT impactor is more suggestive of asteroids than comets, but it’s not conclusive.2021 February 15, Becky Ferreira, quoting William F. Bottke, “Where Did the Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Come From?”, in The New York Times…. From the entry kt
• Here they were, tiny pinmen, on a suburban verandah, caught up in the tail of a comet 14 million miles away.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry pinman
• Comet Temple-Tuttle is what astronomers call a "periodic comet," one of hundreds that routinely and predictably continue to orbit the Sun.2001 November 8, P. Clay Sherrod, Gian Trotta, “A History of the Leonid Storm”, in SPACE.com, retrieved 26 Jan 2016. From the entry periodic comet
• In astronomy, chaoslike phenomena include the orbits of asteroids, comets, and satellites, where small disturbances can have dramatic and complex effects.1993, Archie Roy, Oxford illustrated encyclopedia of the universe. From the entry chaoslike
• The comet or asteroid would part the atmosphere like a superprojectile, leaving a hole through the air as wide as itself.1987, Thomas R. McDonough, Space: The Next Twenty-Five Years, Wiley, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry superprojectile
• The comet or asteroid would part the - atmosphere like a superprojectile, leaving a hole through the air as wide as itself.1985, Donald Goldsmith, Nemesis: The Death-Star and Other Theories of Mass Extinction, Walker, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry superprojectile
• Within the orbit of Neptune, cis-Neptunian bodies include the terrestrial and large gaseous planets, along with a variety of minor bodies: planetary moons, asteroids, and comets.2018, Michael Perryman, The Exoplanet Handbook, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 684. From the entry cis-Neptunian
• The apparent one-to-one correspondence between comets and meteor showers raised a chicken or egg question which was not fully resolved until the middle of the twentieth century.2008 March, Steve Batterson, “The Father of the Father of American Mathematics”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume…. From the entry chicken or egg question
• Professor Stephen Hawking put the cat among the pigeons last week with his cheery remarks about comet Machholz-2, which some astronomers believe could be heading our way.1994 September 19, The Times. From the entry put the cat among the pigeons
• The comet presently became annoyed and alarmed, especially as it seemed that the asbestos fibre had become lodged in its teeth with the irritatingness of a fishbone on one’s tongue.1910 February 20, Stephen Chalmers, “The Truth About the Comet and About the Disappearance of Dr. Gook, Heer Flounder and the Truthful…. From the entry irritatingness

Meaning of comet

1. noun A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
2. noun A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
3. noun Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

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How do you use comet in a sentence?

Comet is used as a noun. For example: “A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.”

What is a short sentence with comet?

“Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs.”

What does comet mean?

Comet means a small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.