Tails
History
Formation
Kuiper Belt/ Oort Cloud
Misc.
100
Solar wind energizes particles and turns them into ions
What is ion tails?
100
This person created two observatories in his day
What is Tycho Brahe?
100
Hot dense cloud composed of mainly hydrogen gas and compounds
What is the Solar Nebula?
100
Distance the the Kuiper Belt is from the sun
What is 50 AU
100
The components of a comet consist of three main parts
What is the coma, ion tail, and nucleus?
200
Atmosphere of the comet
What is the coma?
200
Last major astronomer to work without the aid of a telescope
What is Tycho Brahe
200
The region of the solar system where rocky, metal planetesimals formed
What is the inner solar system?
200
Distance the Oort Cloud is from the sun
What is 50 000 AU?
200
This meteor shower can produce up 75 meteors per hour
What is the Geminid meteor shower?
300
As Earth orbits it slams into dust particles leftover from comets and produces this phenomena
What is meteor showers?
300
The two regions Aristotle divided the sky into
What is the heavens and below the moon?
300
The region where planetesimals mainly composed of hydrogen compounds formed
What is the outer solar system?
300
Orbits in the same plane as the planets
What is Kuiper Belt
300
This meteor showers happens between Aug 11-13
What is the Perseid meteor shower?
400
The most prominent meteor shower
What is the Geminid meteor shower?
400
Calculated the orbit of this comet
What is comet Halley?
400
Cleared out gas from solar system
What is the solar wind?
400
Spherical distribution of comets
What is the Oort cloud?
400
Current mission that will ride on a comet into the interior solar system
What is the Rosetta Mission?
500
This mission gathered data from a comets tail
What is the stardust mission?
500
This is the year when the Great Comet appeared
What is 1577?
500
The region(s) where comets now reside
What is kuiper belt and Oort Cloud?
500
The region where long period comets originate from
What is Oort Cloud?
500
Comet impact Earth in the early age of the solar system
What is comet bombardment theory?
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