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Noun Concept
Categories: Extraterrestrial water, Astronomical objects, Concepts in astronomy, Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images, Wikipedia pending changes protected pages
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comet  A1 comet  Black comets  Comet Tails  cometary
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(astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit WordNet 3.0
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(astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. Wikipedia
Small astronomical body which orbits the sun. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Icy small astronomical object Wikidata
A block of ice and dust that orbits the sun. Seen from the earth, it looks like a bright star with a tail. OmegaWiki
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. Wiktionary
IS A
extraterrestrial object
small Solar System body
HAS PART
nucleus
comet tail
coma
coma
PART OF
planetary system
HAS KIND
Kreutz sungrazer
interstellar comet
lost comet
extinct comet
sungrazing comet
+7 relations
HAS INSTANCE
nucleus
Great Comet of 1577
C/2007 E2
Comet Donati
C/2006 VZ13
+427 relations
CATEGORY DOMAIN
astronomy
DERIVATION
cometary
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
DIFFERENT FROM
exocomet
ON FOCUS LIST OF WIKIMEDIA PROJECT
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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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comet
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comet
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comet
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A1 comet, Black comets, COMET, Comet Tails, cometary, comets, Commet, Dirty snowball hypothesis, Dirty snowball model, Dirty snowball theory, disconnection event, Encke-type comet, Halley-type comet, Jupiter-family comet, Jupiter-family comets, Jupiter comet family, Jupiter family, Jupiter family comet, Jupiter family comets, Jupiter–family comet, long-period comet, long period comet, short-period comet, short period comets, ☄, ☄️

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