Was heißt »Irr­stern« auf Englisch?

Synonyme

Pla­net:

planet

Wan­del­stern:

wander

Englische Beispielsätze

• The missile streaked across the sky like a comet.

• A newly discovered comet may be visible to the naked eye in the coming weeks.

• The Perseids occur when Earth enters the debris field left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle.

• Don't confuse a comet with an asteroid.

• Halley is the comet that proved correct Edmund Halley's prediction that it would reappear.

• Halley is perhaps the most famous comet in history.

• More than 65 million years ago, a large comet hit Earth, leading to the demise of the dinosaurs and most of the planet's other species.

• The comet created excitement among astronomers because it passed very close to Mars.

• Hubble images taken in October 2013 and March 2014 show two jets of dust coming from the comet's core, or nucleus.

• Caroline Herschel was the first woman to discover a comet.

• The Cosmic Dust Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center contains the largest collection of comet debris on Earth.

• Clyde Tombaugh also discovered several star clusters, a comet and more than a hundred asteroids.

• Records show that Halley's Comet has been observed for over 2000 years. Confirmed sightings of the comet go back to 240 B.C.

• Halley's comet was named after Sir Edmond Halley.

• Halley's comet makes an appearance once every 76 years.

• Each time the comet passes close to the Sun, it loses some of its material. Over time, it will break up and disappear completely.

• The earliest known record of a comet sighting was made by an astrologer of the Chinese court in 1059 B.C.

• When Ceres was first discovered it was called a comet. Within a year it was called a planet. Within one more year it was called an asteroid. Since 2006, it has been called a dwarf planet.

• When William Herschel discovered Uranus, he at first thought he had discovered a comet.

• In July of 1994, Jupiter was hit by pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy comet. Dark areas appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere after the large pieces hit the planet.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Him­mels­kör­per:

celestial body