Comet Years

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
CY
Pronunciation
/ˈkɑmət jɪrz/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. A comet can take from three years to thousands of years to go around the sun.
  2. Halley's comet visits the Earth once in 76 years.
  3. Suppose the planet were hit by a comet this happened something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.
  4. The visitor, a pristine comet called ISON that left its home at least a million years ago, made its closest approach to the sun Thursday afternoon.
  5. Comet Holmes has an orbit between Mars and Jupiter and can be seen about every seven years as a very faint object in the sky.

Other meanings of CY

Cyprus Regional
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation Business
Welsh Regional
Cy Young Misc
Calendar Year Gov
Current Year Misc
Container Yard Misc
Current Year (Government budgeting) Gov
Cubic Yard Misc
Chronic Year Misc