Etymology & History
Parts of a Comet
Characteristics of Comets
Famous Comets
Missions to Comets
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The civilization that comets were first observed by
What is the Ancient Chinese?
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The haze around a comet's nucleus that starts forming after a comet comes near the Sun.
What is the coma?
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This is the shape of the path that comets take in their path
What is a ellipse?
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This was one of the largest comets ever observed
What is this Hale-Bopp comet?
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Destination of the Rosetta mission
What is 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko?
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The meaning of the Latin word from which "comet" is derived from
What is (long) hair?
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This was 40 km (25 miles) across in Comet Hale-Bopp
What is the nucleus?
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Short Period comets are thought to have originated from this location
What is the Kuiper Belt?
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The only short-term comet visible to the naked eye
What is Halley's comet?
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Name of the lander contained in the Rosetta orbiter
What is Philae?
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The century until which comets were widely thought to be bad omens of coming catastrophes
What is the 16th century?
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This is where the larger debris from the comet eventually go to and is one of the most defining features of comets.
What is the dust tail?
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The main process that creates the coma around a comet
What is sublimation?
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What is the next year that Halley's comet will be visible?
What is 2061?
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Mission that showed how comets change landscape through sublimation
What is the Giotto mission?
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Who first accurately calculated the period of a comet?
Who is Edmund Halley?
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This is usually blue and formed by solar wind pushing away gases from the comet
What is the ion tail?
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Long period comets are thought to have originated from this place
What is the Oort Cloud?
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The next time that the Hale-Bopp comet will be visible?
What is 2,400 years?
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The possible future mission that could retrieve materials from comets
What is the New Frontiers Mission?
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The name of the comet that confirmed periodicity of comets?
What is Halley's comet?
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This is what a dust trail forms.
What is a meteor shower.
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What is the age that is generally the border between short-range and long-range comets?
What is 200 years?
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A major discovery found on 67P, relating to water vapor
What is comets are unlikely to be the origin of water due to different composition?
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The NASA Missions to comet Tempel 1
What are the Deep Impact/Stardust Missions?
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