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- Charles Stross

Cometeering  
  Exploring a comet!  

I can't think of an earlier use for this term, about five years before Jack Williamson's classic The Cometeers.

There was a shock that drove them down and then upward, an instant click and clang as the rocket’s landing-arms automatically unfolded to hold it in an erect position on the ground. Then silence.

Kirk and Madden struggled out of their control-chairs. "A world — a comet world!” Kirk exulted. "We’ve found it — just wait until we take this news back!”

Madden, hardly less excited, was eyeing dials. "The meters show breathable air, temperature and gravitation about the same as earth’s,” he reported.

"Outside for me, then!” exclaimed Kirk, heading down into the rocket’s body toward its door. "I’m going to give our discovery the once-over.”

"Wait a minute, you nut!” Madden checked him. "Here, we’re going to take our rocket-pistols with us — no telling what’s outside.”

"Come on,” said Kirk impatiently. "This is the last time I go cometeering with any one as slow as you.”

Technovelgy from Creatures of the Comet, by Edmond Hamilton.
Published by Weird Tales in 1931
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