UNIVERSE
ASTEROIDS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Complete each statement by checking the appropriate box.Hale-Bopp is an example of:
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Asteroid
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Comet
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Meteoroid
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Comets and asteroids have a lot in common. Both orbit the sun. Both are far smaller than the planets. Both are remnants of the solar system’s formation almost 5 billion years ago.
Detailed explanation-2: -Typical cometary masses are about a billion tons with a size a few kilometers in diameter (Halley’s Comet, for example, was measured to be an elongated object 15 kilometers long by 8 kilometers in diameter). Jets caused by gas boiling out of the nucleus sometimes can be observed, often forming an anti‐tail.
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