• n  (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

News & Articles

• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Sapphire: Space-Inspired Jewelry Sparkles in Exhibit
  NEW YORK — From twinkling stars and graceful comets to glowing rockets, space has been a popular subject for jewelers throughout history. Now an exhibition draws together choice examples of space-themed jewelry from before the space race to today.
  June 30, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• Audit criticizes sewer management in Golden Meadow
  An audit shows losses in Golden Meadow's sewerage system could cost residents more than $100 a year in higher bills to resolve. The Daily Comet reports ( http://bit.ly/120Pw1S ) the audit, by the firm Bourgeois Bennett, was released this past week by the state Legislative Auditor's Office.
  June 30, 2013 - Erie Times-News
• Comet ISON: Will Potential 'Comet of the Century' Get Brighter?
  Scientists around the world have been tracking the promising Comet ISON because of its potential to star in a spectacular celestial show later this year, but from now through Aug. 8 the comet is on a "summer sabbatical." 
  June 28, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News

Quotes

• Condoleezza Rice in kwgn.com
  I know that when you played the African-American president of the United States, most people thought that would happen when a comet hit,Rice said, drawing laughs and cheers. "But wonder of wonders, fiction has become true."
• Samuel Bayer in Forbes
  A comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs are dying,says Bayer. "There's a new age coming. I think those days are over with."
• Mark Twain in San Diego Union Tribune
  I came in with Halley's comet, and I expect to go out with it. ...... The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Here are two unaccountable freaks. They came in together; they must go out together.' Oh! I am looking forward to that,Twain said in 1909.