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3 Concepts n Comets n experience of nEnacting a story of how comets travel PRE K. And. Michael. . Dzurko. Charles Messier. background. Born June 26, 1730 in Badonviller, France. Died April 12, 1817 in Paris, France. Was the tenth out of twelve children . Born into a wealthy family. Asteroids. Composition (what are they made of?. Asteroids are rocky worlds.. Asteroids. Where are asteroids found?. Most asteroids orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.. Asteroids. What are their shapes?. What’s a Comet Made of?. “dirty snowball” model. Composed of :. Ices: water, CO. 2. and others. Gases: . water, . CO. 2,. CO, O. 2. and some simple organics. Tiny dust particles (organic and inorganic). Information for this PowerPoint obtained from: . NSTA Online Module: Solar System: . Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites . NASA. ESA. Windows2Universe.org. This is a meteorite that had been broken off of Mars from a large impact meteorite. It spent millions of years in space before landing in Antarctica.. Comets and Their Significance. In the past, people dreaded comets as omens of human disasters such as wars or famines.. Today we know that . comets. are icy members of our solar system that have highly elliptical orbits.. Reactivated in Dec 2013, NEOWISE is observing, discovering, and characterizing asteroids & comets . at 3.4 . and 4.6 . m. m. ~11,000 . minor planets observed, including . 245 . near-Earth objects (NEOs). . Challenger Tragedy. Francis . Scobee. , Michael . Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison . Onizuka. , Judith . Resnik. , . Gregory Jarvis, and Christa . McAuliffe. First time a teacher was on . board the Space Shuttle.. Comets Comets Throughout history, people have been both awed and alarmed by, stars with foldable. 6.8 Space Science. Label and color your 3 doors. Fold your paper hamburger style. Cut and label THREE doors, so you will make two lines. Try to make them as even as possible.. 1. Comet. Solutions. 1. Describe . the focus of comparative . planetology. and discuss its importance to solar system studies. .. Comparative . planetology. is . the approach we use to study and understand our solar system. Centaurs. 100 Years. Orange: Centaurs. Blue Box: Comets. Filled Box: . JupComets. White Circle: . Plutinos. Red Circle: TNOs. Magenta Circle: SDOs. d. efinition a = 5 to 30 AU … not . in a 1:1 resonance with any . Ellen Howell (Arecibo Observatory) and Amy Lovell (Agnes Scott College). Hyakutake. Comets: where do they come from?. Icy bodies ejected during giant planet formation. Remnants of early solar system. Facts. Comets, like asteroids are small celestial bodies that orbit the sun. However, unlike asteroids comets are made mostly of frozen ammonia, methane or water, and contain only small amounts of rocky material.. On the third and final full week of March 2016 (the dates of 20. th. . – 26. th. ) there are two comets on a perihelion approach to the Earth on the nights of 21 – 23 March 2016! The comets are 252P/LINEAR and P/2016 BA 14. This a short report on these comets in a rare two – comet flyby that happens once in every 150 years. .