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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

It formed near the Moon's eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, when an asteroid or comet roughly the size of a three- to six-story building struck the surface.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 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

He’d play over the magazine’s featured games assiduously, following the exploits of eighteen-year-old Boris Spassky, the chess comet who’d won the World Junior Championship in 1955.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Halley's Comet is one of the most famous comets in our Solar System and has been observed from Earth for centuries.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

These small icy grains effectively behave like miniature comets.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 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

It is a remarkable thought that that distant tiny twinkle has enough gravity to hold all these comets in orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson