English Explanatory Dictionary

cometopause

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The boundary surrounding a comet's coma where the composition of the surrounding plasma transitions from being dominated by solar wind particles to being dominated by cometary plasma.

Word forms

cometopause
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