How To Use cometary In A Sentence
- At a distance of one light-week, our solar system is lost in the Sun's glare; even farther out is a collection of cometary objects called the Oort Cloud, depicted as a sphere one light year across.
- Extraction at Berkeley of a keystone from a tile on the Stardust cometary dust collector.
- This was no easy lift like the one from Luna to Mars; in choosing to take a 'cometary' or fast orbit to the Hallelujah the Stones had perforce to accept an expensive change-of-motion of twelve and a half miles per second for the departure maneuver. The Rolling Stones
- In this region they would have been safe from late meteoritic and cometary impacts after the accretion of the Earth.
- Filaments of material at the periphery are cooler strands of gas, called cometary knots - each about as long as the Solar System is wide. Wired Top Stories
- It is certain that a loosely agglomerated mass (such as cometary nuclei most likely are) must gradually separate through the unequal action of gravity on its various parts -- through, in short, solar tidal influence. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
- Catholic France spurned him, and Jurieu, the great Reformed divine, called his cometary views "atheism," and tried hard to have Protestant Holland condemn him. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
- Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future. Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package
- The conscientious care and assiduous industry with which Herschel made his measurements of the diameter of the Georgium Sidus (now called Uranus), and his interesting observations of other planets, of double stars with their coloured light, of cometary and nebulous appearances, were truly remarkable; as may be seen by the various papers which he wrote at this time for the Royal Society. The Story of the Herschels
- Another difficulty that must be resolved is the current uncertainty about the consistency of cometary nuclei.
