Comet has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | As the comet gets closer to the Sun, the coma grows. The solar winds push the dust and gas away from the coma causing them to stream off into space to form the comet's tail. | |
| 2. | Records show that Halley's Comet has been observed for over 2000 years. Confirmed sightings of the comet go back to 240 B.C. | |
| 3. | About a million years ago, an icy comet began its journey from its home in our distant solar system, hundreds of times farther out than any planet. Now, the comet has finally reached our inner solar system neighborhood as it follows its long path around the Sun. | |
| 4. | When comet 45P zipped past Earth early in 2017, researchers observing from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, or IRTF, in Hawaii measured the levels of nine gases released from the icy nucleus into the comet’s thin atmosphere, or coma. | |
| 5. | "Phaethon's nature is debated," said Cooke. "It's either a near-Earth asteroid or an extinct comet, sometimes called a rock comet." | |
| 6. | A comet vintage is a wine produced in a year in which there was a comet. | |
| 7. | A comet vintage is a wine produced in a year in which there was a great comet. | |
| 8. | Halley's Comet comes round once every eighty years. | |
| 9. | Halley's Comet will come back in 2061. | |
| 10. | That's how he discovered the comet. |