Comets

Far out in space, the comets tail is short. As it approaches the Sun, the heat melts away some of the ice covering the surface. As it evaporates into space, a tail is formed behind the comet. Always, the tail is facing away from the sun. This is why, when we see comets, their tails are almost as long as they get.

Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught

Superstitious beliefs about comets varies between different cultures. The most common superstitions are; tragedy, success in war, increase in fertility, impending judgment and a future catastrophic event.

wanna see a comet? well

step 1: take a look at the forcast and make sure a night will be clear & no rain

step 2:get a tarp & sleeping bag and suppleis (NO TENT) and go to a place were you can see the sky really well.

step 3: put the tarp on the ground and wait till night to put the sleeping bag

step 4: chill at that place till night then drink a whole bunch of cofee (if your alowed)

step 5:now just get in your sleeping bag on the tarp and watever extra blakets you brought and wait

step 6:you''l see some stars but the sooner or later you'll see a comet (shooting star, make a wish!)

The above steps could be useful to you.. if you want to see a meteor.

Which is way more likely to happen than the sighting of a comet. All you really need to see a meteor is to be in a considerably dark area.. next to the ocean of a big lake works pretty well. The idea is to get away from as much light as possible.

In order to see a comet you generally would need to do some research to try to predict the passing of one (they orbit the sun) and a high quality telescope. Even if you can manage to do these things, comets are very unpredictable they can brighten or fade, lose its tail.. or even gain another, and it can ever break apart all together. Unless you have a connection to NASA it will be very difficult to know which comets are still kicking. If it is something you are really interested in.. try getting in contact with some one from the head of a university with a decent astronomy program.

In Stanley Kunitz's poem "Halley's Comet," he reflects on the rare occurrence of the comet passing by Earth only once in a lifetime. The poem contemplates themes of time, mortality, and the beauty of fleeting moments. Kunitz uses the comet as a metaphor for the transient nature of life and the importance of cherishing each moment.

No, a comet's tail always points away from the sun regardless of the comet's direction of movement. This is due to the solar wind pushing gas and dust particles away from the comet's nucleus, creating the tail that always faces away from the sun.

The Hale-Bopp Comet will appear in the inner-solar system in approximately the year 4377.

This is due to on April 1996 the comet passed within 0.77-0.771 AU of Jupiter, this distance is close enough for the comet's orbit to be affected by the planet's gravitational force.

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The period of revolution of comet Halley is approximately 76 years. This means that it takes about 76 years for the comet to complete one orbit around the Sun.

Rocks or comets can crash into a moon's surface due to gravitational interactions with other objects in space, such as planets or larger moons, which can alter their trajectory. Additionally, factors such as the moon's gravitational pull and its lack of atmosphere to burn up incoming objects contribute to these collisions. Over time, these impacts can create craters and other surface features on the moon.

Yuji Hyakutake, from southern Japan, discovered the comet Hyakutake

Comet Encke has an orbital period of about 3.3 years, so it will next be visible from Earth in 2024. However, it may not always be visible to the naked eye depending on its position in the sky and proximity to the Earth.

The American humorist, author and Mississippi riverboat pilot Samuel Langhorn Clemens, who wrote under the pen name "Mark Twain", was born two weeks after Halley's Comet made its closest approach to the Earth in 1835.

Clements wrote, near the end of his life, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' "

Comets with short orbital periods are typically located in the inner solar system, closer to the Sun. These comets may have originated in the Kuiper Belt or the scattered disc and have been deflected into shorter, more frequent orbits due to gravitational interactions with the outer planets.

Some notable comets observed in the last 5 years include NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) in 2020, Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) in 2014, and Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2017 T2) in 2017. These comets were visible to the naked eye and generated public interest due to their brightness.

A picture representing revolution might be an image of a group of people protesting in the streets, holding signs and chanting slogans for change. This visual often captures the essence of uprising and a desire to challenge and transform existing political or social systems.

A comet is an icy body that releases gas or dust. They are often compared to dirty snowballs, though recent research has led some scientists to call them snowy dirtballs. Comets contain dust, ice, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane and more. Astronomers think comets are leftovers from the gas, dust, ice and rocks that initially formed the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.

Some researchers think comets might have originally brought some of the water and organic molecules to Earth that now make up life here. To research this hypothesis, the Rosetta mission, which landed a probe on a comet on Nov. 12, 2014, is studying its nucleus and environment, observing how it changes as it approaches the sun.

Comets orbit the sun, but most are believed to inhabit in an area known as the Oort Cloud, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Occasionally a comet streaks through the inner solar system; some do so regularly, some only once every few centuries. Many people have never seen a comet, but those who have won't easily forget the celestial show.

Halley's comet appeared in 1910 and 1985 (about every 75 years).

Comet cleanser is not considered organic. It is a powdered household cleaner that contains chemicals such as abrasives, bleach, and other cleaning agents.

A planet would typically have a low eccentricity, ranging from almost circular (0) to slightly elliptical (0.1). Comets, on the other hand, have highly eccentric orbits, often exceeding 0.5 and can approach 1, resulting in elongated and highly non-circular paths around the Sun.

Halley's Comet takes about 76 years to complete one orbit around the Sun. It was last seen in the inner Solar System in 1986 and is predicted to return in 2061.

It is challenging to predict which comets will be visible from Earth by 2100, as new comets are discovered regularly. However, some of the periodic comets that are expected to return within this timeframe include Comet Halley (2061), Comet Hale-Bopp (c. 4385), and Comet Swift-Tuttle (2126).

Meteors and comets actually have very little in common. Comets do fly through space, while meteors USED TO be flying through space. Both glow.

Meteors are the momentary flare of a space rock (more often a space pebble or space grain of sand) as it impacts the Earth's atmosphere and is incinerated by the enormous heat of the shock wave. Comets glow because the Sun's light and light-pressure vaporize the frozen gasses of the comet's nucleus, and light up the gas and dust.

Meteors are typically the size of a grain of sand, or a grain of dust; big ones may be the size of a grain of rice. Thousands of meteors like this strike the Earth each hour. Once a week or so, space rocks the size of a softball or a basket ball strike the Earth, and some of these actually make it through the atmosphere and hit the ground.

Comets are far larger, typically a few miles or more in diameter. They are mostly frozen gas, and the ice binds a few rocks and a lot of dust. Astronomers have compared them to "dirty snowballs".

That depends on what you call 'long' or 'short'.

Halley's period is in the neighborhood of 75 years, give or take a few years.

Since that's short enough for two perihelions to occur within a single human lifetime,

I guess it ought to be considered a short period.

Halley's comet's nucleus is the solid, icy core at the center of the comet. It is composed of frozen gases, dust, and rocky material, and is typically several kilometers in diameter. The nucleus is what forms the heart of the comet and serves as the source of the comet's activity when it approaches the Sun.