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    Comets, meteors, and asteroids are objects that originate from outside Earth's atmosphere. Comets have a icy nucleus and tails that point away from the sun. The Oort Cloud is a hypothesized spherical region at the outer edges of the solar system that is the source of long-period comets. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and become meteors, or "shooting stars"; meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the orbital stream of debris left by comets. Asteroids orbit the sun and range in size and composition, with some posing a potential impact threat to Earth.

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    Comets, meteors, and asteroids are objects that originate from outside Earth's atmosphere. Comets have a icy nucleus and tails that point away from the sun. The Oort Cloud is a hypothesized spherical region at the outer edges of the solar system that is the source of long-period comets. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and become meteors, or "shooting stars"; meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the orbital stream of debris left by comets. Asteroids orbit the sun and range in size and composition, with some posing a potential impact threat to Earth.

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    Comets Power Point

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    Comets, meteors, and asteroids are objects that originate from outside Earth's atmosphere. Comets have a icy nucleus and tails that point away from the sun. The Oort Cloud is a hypothesized spherical region at the outer edges of the solar system that is the source of long-period comets. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and become meteors, or "shooting stars"; meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the orbital stream of debris left by comets. Asteroids orbit the sun and range in size and composition, with some posing a potential impact threat to Earth.

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    Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids

    Structure of a Comet
    Ion Tail

    Dust Tail

    Coma To Sun

    Comet Structure
    Nucleus
    10

    km Dirty Snowball

    Coma
    Cloud

    of evaporated ices and ions may be 100,000 km in diameter


    Tail
    Always
    Solar

    points away from Sun


    Wind and Radiation Pressure

    The Oort Cloud


    In

    1950 Jan Oort noticed that


    no

    comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space,

    there

    is a strong tendency for aphelia of long period comet orbits to lie at a distance of about 50,000 AU, and is no preferential direction from which comets come.

    there

    The Oort Cloud

    Comet Halley

    Bayeaux Tapestry Norman Invasion of 1066

    Comet Halley 1910


    Pope Callixtus III excommunicated Halley's Comet in 1456
    In 1910, charlatans sold "comet pills" Orbit

    Comet Nucleus

    Comet of 1577

    Hyakutake

    Hale-Bopp

    Comet West

    The Cause of Meteor Showers

    P55/Tempel-Tuttle

    Why After Midnight is Best


    Midnight

    Rotational Velocity

    Orbital Velocity

    Shower Radiant

    The 1833 storm

    The 1966 storm

    1997 Leonids from Orbit

    Two Showers for Halley

    Sporadic Meteors
    Irons Stony-Irons

    Chondrites

    Carbonaceous Chondrite

    Achondrite

    Barringers Crater

    An iron meteorite 100 feet across and 70,000 tons slamed into the Earth at about 43,000mph in the Arizona desert near Flagstaff 40,000 years ago. Barringer Crater is 4,100 feet wide and 571 feet deep.

    Other Impact Craters

    Tunguska, 1908

    How Much Damage?

    Asteroids
    Apollo

    Trojans

    Ida - Dactyl

    Gaspra

    Kirkwood Gaps

    Asteroids Elsewhere

    Sedna

    End of Section

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