Comets Jeopardy Comet Facts Famous Comets Rendezvous Vocabulary

Comets Jeopardy

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

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

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

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

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

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? Astronauts Presidents People who discover them Famous NASA officials

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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