Synonyms for comet
ˈkɒm ɪtcomet

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

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1. cometnoun

   Synonyms:
   blazing star

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1. List of paraphrases for "comet":

   guilty

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1. 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.

2. Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:

   It is also possible that a comet will hit planet Earth, (But) I don't believe that any sensible European bureaucrat or politician will go down that road.

3. 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.

4. Philip Sidney:

   With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

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.