Joeys Comet Presentation
Published on Dec 03, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
COMET INFORMATION
- A comet is a small body of ice, rock and dust that follows
- A highly elliptical orbit around the sun. As a comet passes close to the sun,
- It gives off gas and dust in the form of a coma and a tail. The shoemaker-levy
- became trapped by the gravity of Jupiter and plunged into jupiter's atmosphere.
- Hale-Bopp was one of the brightest comets ever seen from earth. The speed of a comet
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COMETS
- Will vary depending on how far from or how close to the sun it is.
- Far from the sun, a comet may travel at speeds as low as 0.32 km/s.
- Close to the sun, a comet may travel as fast as 445 km/s.
- Comets develop tails because going near the sun, the comets dust and ice particles
- Heat up. The Kuiper belt is a region beyond neptune in which an assortment
Photo by Cestomano
LAST SLIDE ABOUT COMETS
- Of the solar system refuse from planet-making orbits
- The sun. This includes ice, dust and gas, along with much
- Larger objects like asteroids and comets.
Photo by Dolor Ipsum
