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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 Comets from wikipedia
- Short-period
comets originate in the
Kuiper belt or its ****ociated
scattered disc,
which lie
beyond the
orbit of Neptune. Long-period
comets are thought...
- on
comets was
decidedly incomplete.
Although he had
suspected that two
comets that had
appeared in
succession in 1680 and 1681 were the same
comet before...
- of
comet include transition comets, that are
close to
becoming extinct, such as were
looked for in the
Hubble search for
transition comets.
Comets such...
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sungrazing comets until 1979 when
coronagraphic observations allowed the
detection of sungrazers. As of
October 21, 2017,
there are 1495
known comets that come...
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death in 1981. The band was also
known as Bill
Haley and the
Comets and Bill Haley's
Comets. From late 1954 to late 1956, the
group recorded nine Top 20...
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under dark skies.
Great comets appear at irregular,
unpredictable intervals, on
average about once per decade.
Although comets are
officially named after...
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inert lump of rock or rubble, an
extinct comet that can
resemble an
asteroid (see
Comets § Fate of
comets). This may have
occurred in the case of 5D/Brorsen...
- po****r in pyro-musicals
because comets can be
easily synchronized to
music given their instantaneous impact. A
comet may also be a
small block attached...
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Periodic comets (also
known as short-period
comets) are
comets with
orbital periods of less than 200
years or that have been
observed during more than...
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periodic comets).
Comets which do not
fulfill the "periodic"
requirements receive the "C"
prefix (e.g. C/2006 P1, the
Great Comet of 2007).
Comets initially...
