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Comets
By: Kaya Umeda, Cierra
Yoshikawa
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What is a Comet?
• Small, icy celestial body that orbits
around the sun
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Comet Parts
• Nucleus (ice, gas and
dust)
– Most of comets mass
• Coma (water vapor,
CO2, and other gases)
– Surrounds nucleus
• Nucleus and Coma form
the head
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Parts Cont.
• Ion Tail (gas)
– Approaching sun, trails
comet
– Leaving sun, leads comet
• Dust tail (dust)
– Long, wide tail composed
of microscopic dust
particles
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Comet Path
• Travel in elliptical
orbits
• Velocity increases
near sun
• Visible near sun
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Comet Life Cycle
• Departure:
– Some are not bound to the sun
• Extinction:
– Lose ice and dust each time they come near
the sun.
– They can lose all their ices and turn into
fragile similar to asteroid
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Comet Life Cycle Cont.
• Breakup:
– Comets that lose all their ices break up
and dissipate into clouds of dust
• Collisions:
– Orbiting comets can collide with planets
and moons
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Characteristics
• Short-period comets:
– Need about 200 yrs or less to complete
one orbit
– Originate from a disk-shaped band of icy
objects
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Characteristics cont.
• Long-period comets:
– Takes more than 200 yrs
– Comes from the nearly spherical Oort
cloud even further out, which get slung
inward by gravitational pull of passing
stars
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Comet Names
• Comet Halley- most famous comet
• Comet Neat
• Comet Kohoutek
• Comet Hyakutake
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Cosmic Snowballs
• New theory that comets are
composed of frozen water are
constantly bombarding Earth
• Vaporize in the atmosphere, adding
water vapor to environment
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Works Cited• “Comets.” All About Astronomy. N.p. 1999. Web. 11 Jan 2011.
<http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/comet/>
• “Comets.” The Nine Planets. N.p., 1994. Web. 11 Jan 2011.
<http://nineplanets.org/comets.html>
• “Comets: Formation, Discovery and Exploration.” Space.com. N.d.
Web. 11 Jan 2011.
<http://www.space.com/53-comets-formation-discovery-and-
exploration.html>
• Hamilton, J. Calvin. “Comet Introduction.” View of the Solar
System. N.p. 1995. Web. 11 Jan 2011.
<http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm>