comet

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It may be responsible for protecting the Earth from things like comets and asteroids that come our way.

From Salon

Often described as dirty snowballs, comets are the dusty, icy relics of planetary formation that were hurled to the solar system’s outskirts eons ago by gravitational interactions with Jupiter or other giant worlds.

From Scientific American

Her appearance had the air of a comet’s return: rare, breathlessly awaited and well worth camping out all night.

From New York Times

Phosphorus naturally occurs most often in solid minerals, such as those found inside asteroids and comets.

From New York Times

Each group’s objects may be the remains of larger moons, up to 150 miles across, that once orbited Saturn but were destroyed by impacts from asteroids or comets, or collisions between two moons.

From New York Times