noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
nucleus
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Clearly comet nuclei are very weak.
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As long as a comet nucleus is still active, fresh clouds of dust are emitted at each perihelion passage.
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The other half of the NEOs are extinct comet nuclei .
■ VERB
see
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Female speaker Well I've seen Halley's comet and it doesn't to me.
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Steve Kates has seen a dozen comets since he was a 9-year-old.
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The darker the sky, the better chance of seeing the comet , he said.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Astronomers had accidentally caught a comet in the act of turning into an asteroid.
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At best, the comet will be visible to us naked-eye types for only a few more weeks.
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Other comets have also been seen to break up.
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Rourke was the one who was shooting out of her sphere like a trail-blazing comet .
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Sciorra plays a Colorado astronomer who discovers that an approaching comet has dislodged several asteroids, propelling them toward Earth.
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Surprisingly, they were the first comets found from Britain this century.
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To extend the parallel, the impact of the comet would also have released large quantities of hard radiation.
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Viewed from space, the normal progress of the survey ship was like the passage of a comet .