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any inclination to eliptic
can come from anywhere |
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| named for man who predicted its return |
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| comet halley orbital period |
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| sun's heat vaporizes them within 3-5 aproach |
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| long period comets orbital period length |
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| orbital period longer than 30 years |
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prograde direction
30 - years |
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| origin of long period comets |
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| 100,000 X distance to next star |
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| how many comets in oort cloud |
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| how did comets get out in the oort cloud |
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| formation of planets threw them out there |
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| where do short period comets come from |
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| where is the kuiper belt located |
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| where is the kuiper belt located |
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100 AU
outside neptune's orbit |
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10 kilometers
size of city |
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| spherical cloud of gas and dust size between size of earth and sun. comet nucleus vaporizes to make it |
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| only seen in ultraviolet light |
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can have 2
point away from sun
short curved yellow
VS
long strain blue ion |
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| what pushes yellow tails away |
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| what pushes blue tails away |
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| what spacecraft imaged comet wild 2 |
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stardust
collected sample of organic material |
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| pebble size pieces of comets |
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| match comet orbits sometimes |
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| meteor shower on 12th of august |
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