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Where do long period comets spend most of their existence?
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
Where do short-period comets originate?
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
When Earth runs into the dust trail left behind by a comet that is orbiting the Sun, Earth experiences a ______________.
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
_______________ have a nearly circular orbit.
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
When a long-period comet is farthest from the Sun in its orbit, which features of the comet exist?
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
What is the cloud of gases that forms around the nucleus of a comet called?
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
A comet that approaches the Sun every one hundred years would be classified as a ________________ comet.
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
Comets tails always point ______________the Sun.
nucleus
short-period
Asteroids
meteor shower
away from
in the Oort Cloud
Kupier Belt
coma
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