comet-like


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Adj. 1. comet-like - resembling a comet
starry - abounding with or resembling stars; "a starry night"; "starry illumination"
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Lined up like pearls on a string, some 20 comet-like fragments will slam one by one into Jupiter next July.
Crash course on a comet bound for Jupiter
The trail of fuzzy, comet-like objects appears to lie near Jupiter, and Marsden says the breakup could have come about if a large comet passed too close to the giant planet - possibly last July, according to his orbital calculations.
Images hint at comet reservoir, breakup
The model indicated that comet-like material originally residing between Uranus and Neptune was gravitationally ejected into roughly the same region Oort had proposed for his comet cloud nearly four decades earlier.
Frozen relics of the early solar system: astronomers search for distant comets
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