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Noun: comet  kómit
  1. (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

Derived forms: comets

See also: cometary

Type of: estraterrestrial body, extraterrestrial object

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