1) Ajax rival 2) American television network 3) Animal superhero 4) Archie Comics superhero 5) Bad omen 6) Bill Haley backer 7) Bill haley bandmate 8) Blitzen colleague 9) Body in orbit 10) Body in orbit around the sun 11) California clipper 12) Celestial body 13) Celestial body with a tail 14) Celestial firework
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An object which circles the sun in a non-circular orbit. Commonly made up of a large mass of rock debris and ice. Basically, a giant snockball from space.
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A hazy cloud of gas with a bright nucleus and a faint tail, moving under the Sun?s attraction in a highly eccentric orbit.
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• (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 or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See I...
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A body of small mass but large volume, compared to a planet, often developing a long luminous and partly transparent tail when close to the Sun.
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(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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(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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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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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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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 usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very ...
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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. Periodic comets are designated by a number, followed...
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an object made of dust and frozen gases that orbits the Sun.
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A comet is a small body orbiting the sun on an elliptical path with a long tail of dust and ice.
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A gigantic ball of ice and rock that orbit the Sun in a highly eccentric orbit. Some comets have an orbit that brings them close to the Sun where they form a long tail of gas and dust as they are heated by the Sun's rays.
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A comet is a `dirty snowball` of ice and rocky debris, typically a few miles across, that orbits the Sun in a long ellipse. When close to the Sun, the warmth evaporates the ice in the nucleus to form a coma (cloud of gas) and a tail. Named for their discoverers, comets sometimes make return visits after as little as a few years or as long as tens o...
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A small celestial body composed at least partially of ices. Comets either orbit the Sun or pass through the Solar System on hyperbolic orbital paths .
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a small frozen mass of gas, dust, and ice. Comets revolve around the Sun or pass through the Solar System in elliptical orbit
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a small frozen mass of gas, dust, and ice. Comets revolve around the Sun or pass through the Solar System in elliptical orbit
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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 disintegrate, it also produces a trail of dust or dust tail ...
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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 disintegrate, it also produces a trail of dust or dust tail ...
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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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A small, frozen mass of dust and gas revolving around the sun.
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a small frozen mass of gas, dust, and ice. Comets revolve around the Sun or pass through the Solar System in elliptical orbit
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a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
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