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Rank | Letters | Answer | Clue | |
1 | 99% | 6 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 42% | 9 | Of or resembling a celestial body | |
3 | 34% | 5 | A celestial body such as Swift-Tuttle that led Giovanni Schiaparelli to discover in 1865 that said body was the source of the Perseids | |
A Celestial Body Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "PLANET" which means:
- noun
- • (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, and pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
- • A person who follows or serves another
- • Any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
An example sentence would be:
- • "Earth is the third planet from the sun."
- • "Mars is often called the red planet."
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