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1. Comet
   [plane] County Hall, Erie County, New York ...
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2. Comet
   [Marvel Comics] Comet is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ==Publication history== The Comet first appeared in Nova #21 (September 1978), and was created by Marv Wolfman and John Buscema. The character subsequently appears in Fantastic Four #206 (May 1979), #208-209 (July-August ...
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3. Comet
   A comet is a celestial body that orbits around the sun. Its tail of gas and dust always points away from the sun .
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4. comet
   A chunk of frozen gasses, ice, and rocky debris that orbits the Sun. A comet nucleus is about the size of a mountain on earth. When a comet nears the Sun, heat vaporizes the icy material producing a cloud of gaseous material surrounding the nucleus, called a coma. As the nucleus begins to disintegra...
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5. Comet
   A diffuse body of solid particles and gas, which orbits the Sun. The orbit is usually highly elliptical or even parabolic. Comets are unstable bodies with masses of the order of 10^18 g whose average lifetime is about 100 perihelion passages. Periodic comets comprise only ~4% of all known comets. Pe...
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6. comet
   [n] - (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
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7. COMET
   Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator
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8. Comet
   Solid, frozen lifeless objects made of dirty ice and gas. They are notourius for their long two tails made of gas.
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9. Comet
   An icy object in independent orbit about the Sun; smaller than a planet, usually having a highly elliptical orbit extending out to beyond Jupiter.
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10. Comet
    A chunk of frozen gasses, ice, and rocky debris that orbits the Sun. A comet nucleus is about the size of a mountain on earth. When a comet nears the Sun, heat vaporizes the icy material producing a cloud of gaseous material surrounding the nucleus, called a coma. As the nucleus begins to disintegra...
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11. Comet
    British cruiser tank, equipped with the Christie large wheel suspension and carried a 77 mm gun. It was first used March 1945 after the British had crossed the Rhine and remained in service for many...
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12. Comet
    Passenger Jet [UK], Medium Tank [UK]
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13. comet
    comets. Small bodies that are members of the solar system and move in very elongated orbits. Category: The cosmos
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14. Comet
    Com'et noun [ Latin cometes , cometa , from Greek ... comet, prop. long-haired, from ... to wear long hair, from ... hair, akin to Latin coma : confer French comète .] (Astron.) A member of the solar system which usua...
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15. comet
    noun (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
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16. Comet
    • (n.) 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 o...
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17. Comet
    (from the article `aerospace engineering`) Commercial aircraft after World War II continued to use the more economical propeller method of propulsion. The efficiency of the jet engine was ... ...the British air-transport industry, and among the suggestions was a specification for a transatlantic mailplane. De Havilland began design stud...
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18. Comet
    (from the article `Bell, Henry`) ...in 1790, settled in Glasgow as a carpenter, and later moved to Helensburgh. In 1800 he submitted proposals to the British Admiralty for ...
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19. comet
    any of a class of small celestial objects orbiting the Sun and developing diffuse gaseous envelopes and often long luminous tails when near the Sun. ... [23 related articles]
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20. Comet
    [Hersheypark] The Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Built in 1946 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters (PTC) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the coaster features a double out and back track layout. When built it was jointly owned by Hershey Park and PT...
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21. Comet
    [Impact Comics] The Comet is a fictional character, a superhero that first appeared in the DC Comics` Impact Comics series, The Comet. The character is loosely based on the Archie Comics character, The Comet. ==Fictional character biography== The Comet`s story is narrated, first-person, by t...
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22. Comet
    [cleanser] Comet is a powdered cleaning product sold in North America and distributed in the United States by Prestige Brands. Scratch Free Comet with Bleach Disinfectant Cleanser contains 1.2% sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione dihydrate (a derivative of cyanuric acid) and 98.8% "other" ingre...
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23. Comet
    [programming] Comet is a web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it. Comet is an umbrella term, encompassing multiple techniques for achieving this interaction. All these methods rely on ...
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24. Comet
    [railcar] The Comets are a class of locomotive-hauled railcars that was first designed in the late 1960s by Pullman-Standard as a modern commuter car for North American rail lines. Later, the Comet moniker was adopted by New Jersey Transit for all of its non-powered single level commuter coa...
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25. Comet
    [Archie Comics] The Comet was a superhero who first appeared in Pep Comics #1 in January, 1940. Possibly the first superhero killed in the line of duty, he died in issue #17 (July, 1941), which also introduced his brother, a brutal hero called the Hangman who would use the projected image of...
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