Meaning | (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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Category | astronomy, uranology | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
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Parts | coma | (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet |
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nucleus | (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet |
Broader | extraterrestrial object, estraterrestrial body | A natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere |
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Spanish | cometa |
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Catalan | cometa |
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Adjectives | cometary, cometic | of or relating to or resembling a comet |
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