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Predict
declare beforehand to foretell to prophesy to presage as to predict misfortune to predict the return of a comet
Planet
revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma and by having a less eccentric orbit See Solar system
Perseid
and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus They are probably fragments of Swifts comet 1862 III
Period
and go on in the same order as the period of the sun or the earth or a comet
Perihelion
That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun opposed to aphelion
Perigee
sometimes but rarely used of the nearest points of bodies not orbiting the earth such as of a comet a planet etc Called also epigee epigeum
Nucleal
nuclear spindle see Illust of Karyokinesis or the nuclear fibrils of a cell the nuclear part of a comet etc
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