comet
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But while the comet itself is a rare visitor, the Earth encounters material left behind by it twice a year, resulting in the Eta Aquariid meteor shower in May and the Orionids in October.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Conversation in the house during these years often focused on global catastrophic risks ranging from comet strikes to supervolcanoes, according to a person who spent time there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
One test, known as a comet assay, did detect DNA damage signals in several tissues.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
He’s distracted when he decides to race a comet: “We roared and thundered along side by side, both doing our level best, because I’d never struck a comet before that could lay over me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It screamed and fled into the trees like a wounded comet.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
These small icy grains effectively behave like miniature comets.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
This occurs when the Earth passes through trials of debris from asteroids or comets.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Meteor showers happen when the Earth passes through trails of debris from asteroids or comets - a snowball of frozen rock and gas orbiting the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Another branch of their work is planetary defence, which involves identifying threats like comets and asteroids.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
When the solar system is all explored, we will probably have evidence for impact catastrophism on all nine worlds, from Mercury to Pluto, and on all the smaller moons, comets and asteroids.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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