cometary , also: cometic

It was more like a cometary surface at close passage.

"That's the most probable time for us to hit the first cometary mass."

Therefore, in theory, cometary life may already have arrived on the planet long ago.

Here's how I handled the way in which cometary orbits were finally worked out.

Over the next few days, the object was observed to be in a cometary orbit.

The choice of a cometary orbit was not a frivolous one.

From this information, we attempt to answer some fundamental questions of cometary physics.

The cometary hydrogen-extraction facilities were the first to be put back into service.

Such information is considered important, for example, in learning where in space the cometary material was made.

This bleak cometary landscape felt heat for the first time in its existence.

Champollion was to provide for return of cometary samples to Earth.

Most cometary nuclei are thought to be no more than about 10 miles (16 kilometers) across.

However, the actual increase in net cometary collisions is thought to have been quite small.

Cometary material leaks from the cloud into the inner part of the system.

"I don't think the cometary fragment is going to miss us."

In addition, the Institute has along tradition in cometary research.

Such a cometary breakup has never been seen in such detail before now.

'And there's still no evidence of the cometary impact point.

"How long will this gunge fall if it's from your cometary tail?"

Anybody who has been outside today has a cometary particle on them.

She was also an astronomer in her own right, determining cometary positions by photography.

There's supposed to be an alien of sorts living in the cometary halo.

One of the questions raised by the cometary impacts on Jupiter is why the impact spots looked black.

"But they can't have had time to gather much data on the cometary event.

There's a possibility of a cometary tail visible when it's close in."