Journey Around the Solar System Part 3
Hello! Now I will share my knowledge about the rest of the solar system which is about the comets, asteroids, and much more! First of all, I will talk about the comets or in other words, shooting stars. The comets are big rocks made of ice and dust, which makes them some sort of dirty snowball. They hurtle through space at relatively high speeds. When a comet is close to the Sun, it moves much faster than when it is farther away from the Sun. Comets also have their own irregular orbit, which is usually oval-shaped. The most famous comet is the Halley’s comet, which makes an orbit around the Sun every 76 years. Comets mainly reside in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. The Kuiper Belt is a pack of dust, rocks, ice, and comets that orbit the Sun at 30-100 AU (Astronomical Unit), which is further from the Sun than Neptune. Just in case you don’t know, an Astronomical Unit or AU is a measure of length, which is the distance between the Earth and the Sun (150,000,000 kilometers). The O...