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cometesimal

Comet vs Cometesimal - What's the difference?

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As a noun comet

is (astronomy) a celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (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.

As an adjective cometesimal is

of, pertaining to or caused by a comet.