Comets

Word COMETS
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What do we mean by comets?

A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.

A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.

Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

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The word "comets" in example sentences

I've always been curious about the number of dead long-term comets out there. dead meaning they do not outgas anymore"" ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the Oort Cloud does exist, the number of extant comets is far greater than was once believed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I've always been curious about the number of dead long-term comets out there. dead meaning they do not outgas anymore ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, besides all these, there are found to occur other masses, not much bigger and some probably smaller, and these we call comets when we see them. ❋ Oliver Lodge (1895)

I would have had him teach us something of the nature of the things we call comets, or stars with large tails, and of that of the fixed stars, which we suppose to be suns, like our sun, with planets revolving round them like ours, since it is clear that they do not borrow their light from our sun, nor from anything that we can discover in the heavens. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

There are short-term comets, called periodic comets, which reside in our solar system, and make appearances every couple of years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those that have been examined up close by space probes are about 50 percent frozen water and 50 percent rock and dust; some experts call comets dirty snowballs. ❋ Ben Harder (2010)

Was water brought to the moon by space rocks and icy bodies called comets? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Obj. 3: Further, stars which are not in the heavens but in the air are called comets, which do not appear at the birth of kings, but rather are signs of their approaching death. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

He first describes the solar system, of which our earth is a member, consisting of the sun, planets, and satellites with the less intelligible orbs termed comets, and taking as the uttermost bounds of this system the orbit of Uranus, it occupies a portion of space not less than three thousand six hundred millions of miles in diameter. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The sun, planets, and satellites, with the less intelligible orbs termed comets, are comprehensively called the solar system, and if we take as the uttermost bounds of this system the orbit of Uranus ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)

Wouldn't we think it would be bombarded with the same kind of comets creating oceans and water like that? ❋ Unknown (2010)

He found it while helping his daughter do a school paper on "comets," and just, you know, skipped over a couple of pages. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They suggest some causes that are unlikely, such as comets which have too low of impact probabilities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Did it come with the 'comets', and why didn't it affect everyone - not just the blind? ❋ Unknown (2004)

For older solar systems some of these, such as comets, may have been exhausted. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Certain objects, such as comets for example, do not require great power, and the revelation of new meteor showers is entirely a question for the naked eye. ❋ Various (N/A)

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