cometic
Americanadjective
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It was not till the time of Halley's comet, 1682, that modern astronomy began to consider the question of the possibly periodic character of cometic motions with attention.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various
The theory of comets is that the joint attraction of the new moon and several planets in the direction of the sun, draws off the gases from the earth, and forms these cometic meteors.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
The sunbeams pass as readily through the entire thickness of the cometic substance as they do through our own highly permeable atmosphere.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
And if several such cometic masses thus travelled towards the centre, they would exhibit the wheel-like figure with bent spokes, which is seen in the spiral nebul�.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
This," said Ben, pointing to one of the dark lines in the cometic spectrum, "this is produced by the vapor of carbon in the nucleus of the heavenly visitant.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose
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