Phrase Hound found 20 phrases and 16 compound words that contain comet. The most common are listed below. Open comet in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 20
- Halley's CometA great comet which can be seen from Earth every 75–76 years.
- periodic cometA comet which orbits the Sun and which returns to the innermost point of its orbit at known, regular intervals.
- Comet HalleySynonym of Halley's Comet: A great comet which can be seen from Earth every 75–76 years.
- short-period cometAny periodic comet with an orbital period of less than 200 years.
- Biela's CometA periodic Jupiter-family comet first recorded in 1772, subsequently splitting in two and not observed since 1852.
- Comet NeowiseSynonym of NEOWISE: A comet in Solar System. Visible to the naked eye in 2020. The first comet easily visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter century.
- great cometA period of cometary activity when the comet becomes exceptionally bright.
- comet tailA display artifact consisting of a smear of color that appears to follow a moving object in the picture.
- comet-seekerSynonym of comet-finder: A low-powered telescope with a large field of view, used for finding comets.
- comet tailsplural of comet tail: A display artifact consisting of a smear of color that appears to follow a moving object in the picture.
- near-Earth cometa comet having a period of revolution shorter than 200 years and a perihelion distance smaller than 1.3 au
- vomit cometA reduced-gravity aircraft, an airplane that briefly provides a nearly weightless environment by flying on a parabolic flight path; used to train astronauts or conduct research.
- interstellar cometA comet (or exocomet) located in interstellar space, and not gravitationally bound to a star.
- dead cometA comet that has shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the sun.
- comet starA starfish of the genus Linckia.
- comet-finderA low-powered telescope with a large field of view, used for finding comets.
- comet-seekersplural of comet-seeker: A low-powered telescope with a large field of view, used for finding comets.
- periodical cometAlternative form of periodic comet: A comet which orbits the Sun and which returns to the innermost point of its orbit at known, regular intervals.
- comet-findersplural of comet-finder: A low-powered telescope with a large field of view, used for finding comets.
- parabolic cometA comet whose orbit is parabolic and so makes only a single visit to the inner solar system
Compound words 16
- cometlikeResembling or characteristic of a comet.
- cometlessWithout a comet.
- cometocentricRelative to the centre of a comet
- cometographersomeone who describes or writes about comets
- cometographyThe scientific description of comets.
- cometologyThe study of comets.
- cometwiseIn the manner of a comet.
- exocometAn extrasolar comet; A comet which exists outside Earth's solar system, including interstellar comets and comets that orbit stars other than the sun.
- exocometaryrelated to exocomets
- yellowcometThe herbaceous flowering plant Mentzelia affinis.