How to Use comet in a Sentence

comet

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  • Meech called it a Manx comet, after a breed of cat without a tail.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The plume has been pushed away by the sun's radiation, not unlike the tail of a comet.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The comet has experienced multiple flare-ups in the past year.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Most meteor showers originate from the debris of comets.
    — CBS News, 28 July 2024
  • Astronomers believe that space rocks such as asteroids and comets may have served as ancient messengers in our solar system.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • At first glance, a new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky, followed by a long, glowing tail.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The comet is named for A. E. Thatcher, who discovered it in 1861.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The comet grows clearer by the day before finally reaching peak visibility.
    — Eric Olson, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
  • The meteors actually come from dust and particles from the tail of the comet as Earth passes through it during the comet's orbit of the sun.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
  • The comet will be approximately 44 million miles away from Earth at its closest point, and has the potential to be bright and vibrant.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 23 May 2024
  • The image shows an expanding, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles long, consisting of dust and other material spewed from the impact crater.
    — Marcia Dunn, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2022
  • But chevrons and comets are both polyiamonds (unions of equilateral triangles) built on top of regular triangular tilings at different scales.
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • When Earth crosses the parent comet's orbital path, the debris that is left behind collides with Earth's upper atmosphere to form the Draconids.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The meteor shower is a debris train trailing the Swift-Tuttle comet, a dirty snowball that completes its orbit around the sun every 133 years.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • In 2016, Meech and colleagues reported the discovery of an unusual long-period comet that was dark and lacked a bright tail of vaporized ice.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Every year, the Earth passes near the path of the comet.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 21 July 2023
  • Skywatchers will have chances to glimpse the comet through most of the remainder of the month.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Bright planets, stars and even a comet may appear if the skies are clear.
    — Katherine Rodeghier, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • That’s a pretty trippy thing to see—a comet during the day!
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Bill Bottke, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, agrees that comet showers are quite rare.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2022
  • On that day, the comet, which appears to be bright green, will be about 27 million miles away from the Earth.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The Leonids come from debris from the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Given that the comet hasn't been seen since the last ice age, this is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.
    — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Strasburg was a comet streaking across the San Diego sky well before.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Rare, green comet to pass by Earth Wednesday Why is it called a devil comet?
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But by all accounts, no one knew this comet was coming.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • MacNeill said if the comet is bright, Frosty Drew will announce a public event.
    — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The comet’s debris heats up when met by friction from the Earth’s atmosphere and lights up.
    — Alisa Tang, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Scientists and amateur astronomers are hot on the trail of what could be the next great comet.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.
    — Fox News, 6 May 2023

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