Yes. Some comets die spectacular deaths, like Shoemaker-Levy 9, which crashed into Jupiter. Some just break up and continue in their orbits. We often find "meteor showers" when the orbit of the Earth intersects the orbit of a comet.
Crash would be a more appropriate word. Yes, it can.
Crash would be a more appropriate word. Yes, it can.
Crash would be a more appropriate word. Yes, it can.
Crash would be a more appropriate word. Yes, it can.
Absolutely YES. Comets can and have hit earth.
1stly some of the water on the earth today came from comets. Evidence says that Earth had water when it formed. From about 178 million years after it formed there is evidence of large scale water on the planet. This could not come from cometary impact. However when you analyse ancient water isotopes do not match exactly water around today. This must mean that a percentage must have come from extraterrestrial sources.
2ndly cometary impact is not unprecedented in recorded history. The comet Shoemaker Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994 proving that comets can and do hit planets. Scientist believed that in 1908 a comet or ice asteroid blew up over Tunguska in Russia with the force of 30 MTons of TNT. The lack of rock from the object make scientist inclined to think it more likely a comet or cometary fragment.
No. They can, however, pass between the earth and the moon.
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Not typically; comets are normally millions of miles from Earth. But every now and then, comets CAN collide with the Earth, with sometimes catastrophic results. And as a comet follows its orbital path around the Sun, the comet can shed dust that eventually fills up the comet's path. When the Earth passes through the comet's path, we experience "meteor showers".
Yes. Every periodic meteor shower happens when the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet, usually an extinct one.
But also keep in mind that good astronomical records only go back about 500 years, and even half-way decent records go back only two thousand years - and a lot of those are probably in ancient Chinese manuscripts that have never been translated or published. The Earth has been around for 4.5 BILLION years. There are a lot of long-term comets that we don't know about yet.
And new comets drop by every once in a while, and eventually one will fall into the solar system on a path that will intersect the Earth's orbit. Eventually, we'll be hit... again.
A comet could concievably pass close enough to the earth to be pulled in by its gravity. We would experience as a meteor or meteorite
As it travels it eventually begins to melt and then the melted part forms a tail as it orbits the sun. Eventually the entire comet melts and dies out.
Yes, and in the past 4 billion years, it has almost certainly happened a couple of times. And in the next 4 billion years, it may again.
Crash would be a more appropriate word. Yes, it can.
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As of May 20, 2014 the next comet that will be coming by the Earth is Comet Faye at the end of May 2014. In June 2014, Comet Brooks 2 will be passing the Earth.
There is no relationship whatsoever between Earth's moon and any comet.
Depends on how big the comet is, where the comet hits, and what religious beliefs you have.
The name of the comet seen in 1986 is Halley's Comet. You can see it every 75-76 years, and is the only short period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye from earth, and thus the only naked-eye comet that might appear twice in a human lifetime.
Halley's Comet orbits the sun, not the earth, roughly every 76 years.
it was 1986
The sun is the largest out of the three and then the earth and then a comet.
As of May 20, 2014 the next comet that will be coming by the Earth is Comet Faye at the end of May 2014. In June 2014, Comet Brooks 2 will be passing the Earth.
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That would depend on where it landed and how large it was.
The name of the comet that will pass Earth on August 15, 2011, is the comet Honda.
We don't currently know when a comet will hit planet Earth.
There is no relationship whatsoever between Earth's moon and any comet.
Halley's Comet.
a comet
No, a comet will NOT hit earth in 2012.
Depends on how big the comet is, where the comet hits, and what religious beliefs you have.