FACTS!!!

• The early earth was hit by many comets.
• The Oort cloud may be home to many comets.
• The halley's comet is named after a scientist.

• Comets are ice and frozen gas.
• When a comet gets close to the sun it melts and it leaves it tail behind.
• Comets have three parts the nucleus, coma, and the tail.
• The sunlight reflects off the tail and that's what we see from earth.
• Comets are leftovers from when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.

• Some comets take 200 to 300 years to orbit the sun.
• Most are a few miles wide.

• The last comet was in 1986.
• The next comet will be in 2061.
• Comets are like meteors.
• Comets tails are made out of star dust.
• Comets have dust tails and gas tails.

• We don't know how many comets are in the universe.
• Edward Emerson Barnard found the first comet.
• The Halley's comet is 10 x 5 x 5 miles.

JOKES

• All the dinosaurs thought it was a comet but it was actually a meteor
• Jimmy do you have a comet.