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Space
Space
Science
Elizabeth Fernandez

How to make a comet

A chalkboard background shows a drawing of a tblue/teal comet burning upward towared the right. In the to top right, a space.com 25 year anniversary logo.

There are many different objects in our solar system — planets, the sun, asteroids… and comets! In this project, we are going to make a comet in two different ways and learn about its parts in the meantime.

A comet is sort of like a dirty snowball. There are over three thousand comets in our solar system. Some have orbits that take them very close to the sun and then whip them out to the outer solar system, even farther out than Neptune.  

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