How To Use Cometary In A Sentence
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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.
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Extraction at Berkeley of a keystone from a tile on the Stardust cometary dust collector.
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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.
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In this region they would have been safe from late meteoritic and cometary impacts after the accretion of the Earth.
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Filaments of material at the periphery are cooler strands of gas, called cometary knots - each about as long as the Solar System is wide.
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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.
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Catholic France spurned him, and Jurieu, the great Reformed divine, called his cometary views "atheism," and tried hard to have Protestant Holland condemn him.
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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.
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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.
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Another difficulty that must be resolved is the current uncertainty about the consistency of cometary nuclei.
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While they may look tiny, these strands of molecular hydrogen - known as cometary knots - are each about the size of
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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.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured a picture of starlit asteroidal and cometary debris encircling the yellow dwarf star HD 107146.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured a picture of starlit asteroidal and cometary debris encircling the yellow dwarf star HD 107146.
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Seriously, we need to do an edit of each show with your tweets as subtitled cometary to the show.
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Such uncertainties make it impossible to predict the mechanical properties of cometary material and the way a comet nucleus would react to a ‘nudge’ to change its trajectory.
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The risks associated with catastrophes such as asteroidal/cometary impacts, supervolcanic episodes, and explosions of supernovae/gamma-ray bursts are based on their observed frequencies.
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The body that had been photographed with a definite cometary tail in 1949 was now a bare rock.
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The paraboloidal shape of the bright envelope separated by a dark interval from the head of the great comet of 1811, and constituting, as it were, the _root_ of its tail, seemed to the astronomer of Bremen to reveal the presence of a double repulsion; the expelled vapours accumulating where the two forces, solar and cometary, balanced each other, and being then swept backwards in a huge train.
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It is interesting to reflect upon the possibility that a meteorite-sized chunk of cometary material might survive its fall to Earth.
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By studying meteor showers, scientists can learn more about cometary debris, but it is going a step further with its Rosetta comet-chasing mission which will examine a comet at close range.
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These presumably cometary bodies, which reach several hundred kilometers in size, are vulnerable to severe perturbations by these planets.
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The station was outward bound for the apastron of its shortened and cometary path.
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Indeed, the outermost asteroids show similarities with the cometary nuclei observed far from the Sun.
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It is almost certain that, during the Earth's early history, the planet was a frequent victim of cometary impacts.
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Our understanding of astronomy has shown us that cometary and asteroidal impacts are relatively commonplace over timescales of hundreds of millions of years.
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Ease of accessibility is itself a natural resource and opens up the economic possibility of efficient exportation of asteroidal or cometary natural resources to Earth and other exploration targets.
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Frequent breakup and erosion of cometary nuclei provides not only vast quantities of meteoric dust, but also occasional larger fragments.
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All the elements found in the plume must be coming from cometary and asteroidal sources, Colaprete said.
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By the final moments, cometary dust will have abraded the camera's optics, degrading the quality of the images, and possibly ending transmission.
