UNIVERSE
METEORS
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Question
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Along with Meteors and Meteoroids in the Kuiper Belt
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Oort Cloud
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Around a Planet
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In the middle of space
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Nowhere, they form near Earth and get pulled in by gravitational force.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Comets are mostly found way out in the solar system. Some exist in a wide disk beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt.
Detailed explanation-2: -Comets come from regions of the outer solar system known as the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. Kuiper belt comets: About a billion comets more than 10 km across.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its very unlikely for a comet to become a satellite of an inner solar system planet. Much less likely than it is for an asteroid. Most asteroids are on fairly circular orbits, and so the relative velocity between asteroids and planets is quite low.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most comets are discovered by the professional surveys. We amateurs tend to find stuff in areas near the sun where the surveys don’t look. How do you do it? The computer and the telescope do most of the work.
Detailed explanation-5: -Comets go around the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit. They can spend hundreds and thousands of years out in the depths of the solar system before they return to Sun at their perihelion. Like all orbiting bodies, comets follow Kepler’s Laws-the closer they are to the Sun, the faster they move.