cometary
- a word derived from comet.
Example Sentences
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“This is due to the fact that fireballs originate from larger particles of cometary material.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025
The presence of such volatile ices in KBOs supports a fascinating narrative of these objects as "ice bombs," which activate and display cometary behavior upon altering their orbit closer to the sun.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024
The formation of a supercontinent is not a fast and furious horror show like a cometary impact or, say, humanity’s rapid-fire gaming of the climate and annihilation of natural habitats.
From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023
But what about the lack of evidence of a cometary tail?
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2023
As late as 1988 more than half of all American paleontologists contacted in a survey continued to believe that the extinction of the dinosaurs was in no way related to an asteroid or cometary impact.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
