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A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.

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A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.

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Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

Yes, a comet slamming into the planet or some galactic cataclysm could wipe us all out.

Memory of the land in Arkansas streaked across her mind like a comet, leaving a trail of questions in its wake.

Tebbutt's comet in 1881 was the first to be satisfactorily photographed.

In 1812 Bessel measured with it the angle between the components of the double star 61 Cygni and observed the great comet of 1811.

Gazing at the high starry sky, at the moon, at the comet, and at the glow from the fire, Pierre experienced a joyful emotion.

Crommelin of Greenwich, the latter having carried the comet back to 87 B.C. with certainty, and to 240 B.C. with fair probability.

As an undergraduate he became deeply interested in astronomy; he observed the comet of 1759 and the transit of Venus of June 1769, and left a quarto volume of astronomical notes.

Having removed to London, he was admitted (November 6, 1618) a licentiate of the college of physicians, and attracted notice by a publication concerning the comet of 1618.

After a rough estimate of the perturbations it must sustain from the attraction of the planets, he predicted its return for 1757,-a bold prediction at that time, but justified by the event, for the comet again made its appearance as was expected, though it did not pass through its perihelion till the month of March 1759, the attraction of Jupiter and Saturn having caused, as was computed by Clairault previously to its return, a retardation of 618 days.

Such a star is a comet.

Donati analysed the light of a small comet into three bright bands.

This comet has given rise to a longer series of investigations than any other, owing to Encke's result that the orbit was becoming smaller, and the revolutions therefore accelerated, by some unknown cause, of which the most plausible was a resisting medium surrounding the sun.

Schiaparelli's announcement that the orbit of the bright comet of 1862 agreed strictly with the elliptic ring formed by the circulating Perseid meteors; and three other cases of close coincidence were soon afterwards brought to light.

Some other bright comet may soon flash into view.

It seemed to Pierre that this comet fully responded to what was passing in his own softened and uplifted soul, now blossoming into a new life.

To the right and high up in the sky was the sickle of the waning moon and opposite to it hung that bright comet which was connected in Pierre's heart with his love.

Cassini, the great comet of 1680 after its perihelion passage; and having returned to England, he married in 1682 Mary, daughter of Mr Tooke, auditor of the exchequer, with whom he lived harmoniously for fifty-five years.

Thus a comet may be encountered in the morning dawn or evening twilight, and without such an adjunct the astronomer may lose the whole available opportunity for observation in the vain endeavour to find a suitable comparison-star.

Faye in November 1843, the other by Francesco de Vico a year later, were minutely investigated by Leverrier, with the result of disproving the supposed identity of the first with Lexell's lost comet of 1770, and of the other with Tycho's of 1585.

But the most striking incident in the history of the verification of Newton's law was the return of Halley's comet to perihelion, on the 12th of March 1759, in approximate accordance with Clairault's calculation of the delays due to the action of Jupiter and Saturn.

One advantage of the comet theory is that comets move across the starry sky.

A comet is actually leftover space debris from the formation of planets billions of years ago.

The most famous comet is, of course, Halley's Comet, but there are other comets like Holme's and Hale-Bopp.

In fact, many hold some significance which may make a comet tattoo a popular choice.

The people of this cult believed that hidden in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet was a spaceship coming to take them "home".

When you are trying to decide on what to get as your comet tattoo, you can check out many of the flash Internet sites like Tattoo Johnny.

But at the very least you can give yourself some really good ideas on the type of comet tattoo you want to get.

Your local shop will also have many books that contain all sorts of comet tattoos that you can choose from.

If you don't want flash work or some other premade artwork, you can work with your tattoo artist in order to come up with a comet tattoo design that you can be proud of and that is unique to you.

If you are a fan of fantasy art and want to depict that in a tattoo, then why not add a comet tattoo to the pattern?

The tail of the comet could be blue and white hues with dust added in.

Tribal tattoos are a very popular style of tattoo, but there are not many tribal designs as far as a comet is concerned.

He calculated an orbit for the comet of 1 759 (Halley's), reduced Lacaille's observations of 515 zodiacal stars, and was, in 1763, elected a member of the Academy of Sciences.

This comet had been observed in 1066, and the accounts which have been preserved represent it as having then appeared to be four times the size of Venus, and to have shone with a light equal to a fourth of that of the moon.

That this should have been due to the process of dissipation does not seem possible in so short a period; we must therefore consider either that the earlier accounts are greatly exaggerated, or that the brightness of the comet is subject to changes from some unknown cause.

In her grief at the destruction of the city she plucked out her hair and was changed into a comet; in another version Electra and her six sisters had been placed among the stars as the Pleiades, and the star which she represented lost its brilliancy after the fall of Troy.

His great contribution to astronomy dates from 1866, when he showed that meteors or shooting stars traverse space in cometary orbits, and, in particular, that the orbits of the Perseids and Comet III., 1862, and of the Leonids and Comet I., 1866, were practically the same.

When Erik Blood-axe, son of Harold Haarfager, visited Bjarmaland in 922, he found Gunhild, daughter of Asur Tote, living among the Lapps, to whom she had been sent by her father for the purpose of being trained in witchcraft; and Ivan the Terrible of Russia sent for magicians from Lapland to explain the cause of the appearance of a comet.

Sir William Huggins repeated the experiment on Winnecke's comet in 1868, Progress only with long exposures could autographic im ?'

A photograph of the spectrum of Tebbutt's comet, taken by him on the 24th of June 1881, showed radiations of shorter wave-lengths but identical source, and in addition, a percentage of reflected solar light marked as such by the presence of some well-known Fraunhofer lines.

That he had carefully studied the comet of 1577 as an astronomer, we may gather from his adducing the very small parallax of this comet as disproving the assertion of the Aristotelians that a solid sphere enveloped the heavens.

But besides this, we find him in his character of astrologer drawing a singular prediction from the appearance of this comet.

Arrhenius, that the phenomenon is due to corpuscles sent off by the earth and repelled by the sun in the same way that they are sent off from a comet and form its tail.

The aim of the mission is to collect particles from Comet Wild 2 using a material called aerogel.

The worlds first jet airliner, the Comet, made its maiden flight in Britain.

Similarly there will be a size above which gravitational attraction to the comet exceeds the gas pressure trying to detach the grains.

Comet assay results were given for 8 organs in the mouse with 208 chemicals for which carcinogenicity bioassay data were available.

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This comet is the color of your soul star chakra at the back of your neck, which is considered the eighth chakra.