Asteroid and Comet

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Asteroid

Asteroid noun - Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter).
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Comet and asteroid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Comet" instead a noun "Asteroid".

Comet

Comet noun - (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit.
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Asteroid and comet are semantically related. You can use "Asteroid" instead a noun "Comet".

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  • Creator / Alastair Reynolds Its mascot is the eponymous cute species of penguin and... you know... the ship's routine flights involve "hopping" from one asteroid or comet to the next.
    Source: Creator / Alastair Reynolds
  • The World Is Always Doomed: In the first book, the wizards become discouraged when Roundworld is repeatedly (As in, every several million years or so), hit by a large comet or asteroid.
    Source: Discworld / The Science of Discworld
  • Useful Notes / Stock Dinosaurs (True Dinosaurs) Together with Triceratops (and few others) Tyrannosaurus was one of the rare dinosaurs that was directly led to extinction by the asteroid/comet collision at the end of the Mesozoic Era.
    Source: Useful Notes / Stock Dinosaurs (True Dinosaurs)
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