COMET

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 5

a small body, or collection of |, bodies, revolying around the sun. Their orbit, instead of being nearly circular, | like those of the planets, takes the shape of an ellipse, or even of a parabola or); P miles | Sys tegen ot pea of p ly cons gascs in a high state of combustion. | [s. 105]