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These long distance travelers may be dirty ice balls or icy dirt balls comets $400 J ASTRONOMY 2010-05-28 #5930
Using Newton's laws of motion, astronomer Edmund Halley determined that these travel in elliptical orbits comets DD $800 J THE SOLAR SYSTEM 2005-10-11 #4847
Meteors, also known as shooting stars, may be debris left by these icy bodies traveling around the sun comets $1,600 DJ ASTRONOMY 2004-11-24 #4653
Among these objects, Encke's has an orbital period of 3.3 years; Tago-Sato-Kosaka, 420,000 years comets DD $1,512 DJ ASTRONOMY 1999-04-23 #3380
Some scientists say thousands of these, known as "dirty snowballs", strike our atmosphere every day comets $200 J ASTRONOMY 1997-12-23 #3067
Latin for "hairy star", recent ones have included Hyakutake & Shoemaker-Levy comets $200 DJ ASTRONOMY 1997-11-11 #3037
These objects with comas & tails can be named for up to 3 independent co-discoverers comets $200 DJ ASTRONOMY 1996-11-25 #2816
In 1950 Jan Oort proposed that these tailed bodies come from a cloud about 1 light year from the Sun comets $400 DJ ASTRONOMY 1996-05-16 #2709
Their comas may exceed 500,000 miles in diameter comets $400 DJ ASTRONOMY 1994-10-31 #2336
They were once thought of as "hairy stars" & were regarded as evil comets $400 DJ ASTRONOMY & SPACE 1992-07-06 #1826
These have been described as "dirty snowballs" of dust & ice orbiting the sun comets $600 DJ ASTRONOMY 1988-03-22 #827
The Greeks referred to them, not heavy metal singers, as long-haired stars comets $600 DJ THE SOLAR SYSTEM 1986-10-01 #473
Most meteors are bits of debris left by these passing by comets $200 J ASTRONOMY 1986-01-24 #360
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