Leonid Scavenger Hunt by DJ Diamondz https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378 Hopefully, the many facts and tips provided will help you better understand the Leonid comets very well. This could benefit you in many various ways! en-us 2016-01-07 19:40:10 UTC 2023-01-29 14:08:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/92322239/ffc3eda05bf2b65fe8bc08b7320be63ac3842a1d/837d9bd829e8a2a324f89c5f2632c6c6.jpg 1. Comets are interesting to astronomers because comets are objects made up of gas, ice,and dust. They travel around the Sun in an orbit. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88261758

]]> 2016-01-07 19:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88261758 1a. Comets are warmed up as they approach the Sun. This causes the Comet to form a head and tail. The head is the cloud-like mass we see in the front. The tail is the trailing part which is made up of small particles and ice. Comets lose mass each time they pass through the inner regions of the Solar System. Comets are usually named after the person who discovered them. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88264227 2016-01-07 19:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88264227 2. Comets have three distinct parts: a nucleus, a coma, and a tail. The solid core is called the nucleus, which develops a coma with one or more tails when a comet sweeps close to the Sun. The coma is the dusty, fuzzy cloud around the nucleus of a comet,and the tail extends from the comet and points away from the Sun. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88264722 2016-01-07 19:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88264722 3. All meteorites come from inside our solar system. Most of them are fragments of asteroids that broke apart long ago in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88265358 2016-01-07 20:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88265358 4. Meteors are visible in space because meteors burn up so that causes light which causes us human beings to see meteors in space. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88265965 2016-01-07 20:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88265965 5. These meteor showers are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88266390 2016-01-07 20:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88266390 6. Meteor shower: a number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky at a particular date each year, due to the earth’s regularly passing through a field of particles at that position in its orbit. Meteor showers are named after the constellation in which the radiant is situated, e.g, the Perseids. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88267232 2016-01-07 20:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88267232 7. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88267676

]]> 2016-01-07 20:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88267676 8. Short-period comets need roughly 200 years or less to complete one orbit, long-period comets take more than 200 years, and single-apparition comets are not bound to the sun, on orbits that take them out of the solar system. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88268080 2016-01-07 20:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88268080  9. Question; What is a comet's radiant? A small frozen mass of dust and gasrevolving around the sun. Also, it lights up. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88268682 2016-01-07 20:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88268682 10. Leonids’ radiant is located to appear in the constellation Leo’s point on the sky. brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88269271 2016-01-07 20:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88269271 11. You can see the next Leonid shower on the night of November 17th to early morning of November 18th, 3 days after a full moon. Thank you for taking your time and reading my mini article! brooklynnbrilliance https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88269590 2016-01-07 20:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/brooklynnbrilliance/119537w5a378/wish/88269590