"comet" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A long-period comet will take more than 200 years to orbit.
- The slightest error, and we'd either burn up, or become a long-period comet.
- This is a long-period comet (it will not return to earth for a long time).
- Prophecy is possible using scientific laws, where sufficiently simple events are concerned: the eclipse of a sun, or the return of a long-period comet.
- It's got the orbital characteristics of a long-period comet - but none of the physical characteristics.
- Like a long-period comet, 1996 PW takes about 7,000 years to complete just one orbit.
- The parent body, probably a long-period comet, is unknown.
- This contrasts it with long-period comets, whose orbits last for thousands of years.
- Its parent is a previously unknown long-period comet.
- Such families are thought to arise from the planet capturing formerly long-period comets into shorter orbits.
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