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Celestial body
Answer for the clue "Celestial body ", 6 letters:
meteor
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n. a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode [syn: shooting star ] (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that ...
Usage examples of meteor.
He would be a meteor miner in every particular, down to the last, least detail.
Two ships, flashing up to zone contact in the twinkling of an eye, the inoffensive meteor squarely between them!
Indeed, the meteor itself, the bone of contention, might very well have been a bait.
Besides, your meteor is not in that category, as you are its first owner, as far as we know.
By taking his metal to a mint or a rare-metals station of the Patrol, any miner could get the precise value of any meteor, as shown by detailed analysis.
By this time the meteor belts of a hundred solar systems knew for a fact that Wild Bill Williams of Aldebaran II could find metal if metal was there to be found.
Wild Bill Williams, meteor miner, who was widely known as the fastest and deadliest performer with twin DeLameters who had ever infested space!
Flags wearily through darkness and despair-- A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.
And, as a dying meteor stains a wreath Of moonlight vapour, which the cold night clips, It flushed through his pale limbs, and passed to its eclipse.
As the meteor came in over the coast of west Africa, it would begin to burn and shatter, and pieces would begin to break off.
It was now felt that the angle and velocity would not take the approaching meteor over the Andes, which was a relief to Peru and Ecuador, of course, but the projections also indicated it would track a bit north of the original estimates.
The impact site should be at least the size of Meteor Crater in Arizona, perhaps larger and deeper.
And even though they would have a ringside seat, the best view would be from the big tracking telescopes in Chile, which could lock on to the meteor while it was still coming in.
I noticed the shops selling lucky charms and meteor repellent in the last week or so.
Bars served meteor cocktailswhich differed from bar to bar, but who cared?