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Noun:

  • A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
  • astronomy A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in an (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.

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