comae in English

noun
1
a state of deep unconsciousness that lasts for a prolonged or indefinite period, caused especially by severe injury or illness.
a road crash left him in a coma
synonyms:state of unconsciousnesspersistent vegetative state
2
a diffuse cloud of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
Rosetta's instruments will analyse the gases and dust grains in the coma that forms when the comet becomes active, as well as the interaction with the solar wind.
noun
  • state of unconsciousnesspersistent vegetative state
  • comatoseness

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1. Abstract Cometary comae are generally depleted in nitrogen

2. Nevertheless, in the context of Cometary comae the population of rotational levels does deviate from local thermodynamical equilibrium (LTE) at some distance from the nucleus (Zakharov et al

3. This chapter summarizes our current knowledge of the volatile composition of Cometary nuclei, based on spectroscopic observations and in situ measurements of parent molecules and noble gases in Cometary comae.