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Measuring at about 3.2 miles wide, the asteroid may have broken off of a comet, according to NASA, now forming a cometlike tail when it gets close to the sun.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Rather, Pluto orbits within the Kuiper belt of ice-rich cometlike objects.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2022
With no magnetosphere to protect it, the atmosphere of Venus is continuously being blown off by the solar wind in a long, invisible, cometlike tail.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015
And to judge from the cometlike trajectory of Mr. Nelsons’s career, Mr. Volpe is not alone in that thinking.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2014
Was it all the I’s that did it or the mental picture that streaked cometlike across the unfocused lens of her mind?
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
