Antonyms for Comet
ˈkɒm ɪtcomet

Matched Categories

1. • Astronomy
   • Extraterrestrial Object

Princeton's WordNet

1. cometnoun

   (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

How to use Comet in a sentence?

1. Kathrin Altwegg:

   It is the most surprising discovery we have made so far in 67P because oxygen was not among the molecules suspected in a cometary comas, the first time we saw it I think we all went a little bit into denial because it was not expected to be found in a comet.

2. Patrick Martin:

   This time, as we're riding along next to the comet, the most logical way to end the mission is to set Rosetta down on the surface, but there is still a lot to do to confirm that this end-of-mission scenario is possible. We'll first have to see what the status of the spacecraft is after perihelion and how well it is performing close to the comet, and later we will have to try and determine where on the surface we can have a touchdown.

3. Leif Tapanila:

   Here's a great example of what happens when a meteor or comet hits a marine environment, and it doesn't really do a whole lot.

4. Coryn Bailer-Jones:

   I think, in general, it is hard to associate a particular comet with a particular star, we must also consider the contribution of the galactic background potential, which is essentially the influence of all the other much more distant, but also much more numerous, stars in the galaxy.

5. European Space Agency officials:

   The data acquired during Rosetta's close flyby will provide incredible new details of the comet's surface and near-coma environment, complementing that collected earlier in the mission while on bound orbits.

How to pronounce Comet?

How to say Comet in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency