Comets Jeopardy. 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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Comets Jeopardy

Comet Facts Famous Comets Rendezvous Vocabulary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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