...gan]] and [[Hairy]]) a chance to collect extra data from very close to the comet, using the spacecraft's powerful sensors.
...oid_impact_avoidance#Kinetic_impact|kinetic impact}}" mission to deflect a comet that was on a collision course with Earth. A similar scenario (but using a
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...ng rocket ship''' (🚀): This might be a reference to the "{{w|Vomit Comet}}" aircraft that astronauts train on. Also, space travel and travel in gene
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...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko#Shape 'rubber duck' comet]. Making fun of media covering science news is a recurring theme on xkcd.
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...ly quoted list of names: ''Dasher'', ''Dancer'', ''Prancer'', ''Vixen'', ''Comet'', ''Cupid'', ''Donder'', and ''Blitzen''.{{Citation needed}} As the title
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...way to influence the orbits of the planets, but those encounters cause {{w|Comet|comets}} perturbed from the Oort cloud to enter the inner Solar System roug
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: {{w|Comet Cursor}} was Windows software that allowed users or websites to customise t
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...cf. {{w|Kirkwood gap}}) and completely destroy other celestial bodies ({{w|Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9}}), someone who is "within earshot" of Jupiter may wish
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:Host: That's a comet. Some of them come back every few decades, no matter how much I yell at the
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...used by the {{w|Tunguska event|breakup of a 100-meter falling meteorite or comet}} with the energy of some 30 megatons of {{w|TNT}} flattened some 80 millio
...ears ago is believed to be caused by an {{w|Alvarez hypothesis|impact of a comet or asteroid}}. Randall mentions "non-avian" dinosaurs, as birds are dinosau
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...keup (with a name close to {{w|cosmology}}, a branch of astronomy, and {{w|comet}}, an astronomical object). The last may also be referring to the occasiona
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...ts closest approach in 2031, near Saturn's orbit. It's an {{w|Oort Cloud}} comet, with a {{w|Orbital period|period}} of more than 4 million years. Since mod
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...w|Philae (spacecraft)}}, please?). Based on the amount of ice in a typical comet, it extrapolates the quantity of the other ingredients. The mixed drink is
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...ause the extinction of the dinosaurs if they keep moving out from under my comet?"
* A {{what if|162|crane dropping a comet}} onto a dinosaur
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