1. Comets Jeopardy

2. Comet Facts 100 200 400 500 300 Famous Comets 100 200 400 500 300 Rendezvous Vocabulary 100 200 400 500 300

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5. Comets 100 What are the three ingredients of a comet? Ice, gas, dust Ice, dust, rocks Water, rocks, dust Gas, water, ice

6. Comets 200 What are the three parts of a comet? Head, nucleus, tail Head, body, tail Coma, nucleus, tail Coma, body, tail

7. Comets 300 Where do long period comets come from? Oort Cloud EarthMilky Way Kuiper Belt

8. Comets 400 Where do short period comets come from? Oort Cloud EarthMilky Way Kuiper Belt

9. Comets 500 What are names of the two visible tails of a comet? Red tail & Blue tail Red tail & Dust tail Ion tail & Blue tail Ion tail & Dust tail

10. Famous Comets 100 Where do comets get their names? People who discover them Famous NASA officials PresidentsAstronauts

11. Famous Comets 200 Which comet was destroyed when it collided with Jupiter? Shoemaker - Levy 9 HalleyHale - Bopp Temple 1

12. Famous Comets 300 Which comet had the longest tail ever seen? Shoemaker - Levy 9 Halley Temple - Tuttle Hyakutake

13. Famous Comets 400 Which comet visit’s Earth atmosphere every 76 years? Shoemaker - Levy 9 Halley Temple - Tuttle Hyakutake

14. Famous Comets 500 Which comet produces the Perseid meteor shower? Shoemaker - Levy 9 Halley Swift - Tuttle Hyakutake

15. Rendezvous 100 magnitude What word describes the brightness of a comet? rendezvous nuclueseccentricity

16. Rendezvous 200 magnitude What word describes the orbit of a comet? rendezvous nuclueseccentricity

17. Rendezvous 300 magnitude What word means to “meet up” with something? rendezvous nuclueseccentricity

18. Rendezvous 400 Nucleus What is a cloud of dust and gas that forms around a comet’s nucleus due to solar heating? Coma Ion tail Dust tail

19. Rendezvous 500 Simulator What is the name of an artificial environment created to resemble an actual place; used for training? Mission Control OrbitTaskcard