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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Meteor
Meteor noun - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere.
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Comet and meteor are semantically related in falling star topic. You can use "Comet" instead a noun "Meteor", if it concerns topics such as anything that progresses with spectacular speed.
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A random event in Europa Universalis involves a comet or meteor appearing and the superstitious peasants being concerned enough that your country loses stability.
Source: Comet of Doom - Bow Master: Spells are triggered at the arrow's point of impact, which can be extremely annoying if a flying enemy happens to get in the way, resulting in a masive meteor or comet hitting the ground ahead of the enemy mob.
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After an ancient asteroid war nearly wiped out the planet, the race was motivated (terrified) into moving every single comet and meteor in the system into more stable circular orbits, making it too fuel-intensive for future war-makers to use them to bomb the planet again.
Source: Creator / Larry Niven
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