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Sep 18, 1577
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe discoverd that a comet doesn't go in a circualar motion. The comet actually goes in a elongated motion. Elogated Means that the comts has to pass through the spheres that carry the planets around the sky. -
mathematics
In the 1700's sciencetis made formulas that could predict a comet particular comet around the sun. -
Physical Characteristics
Isaac Newton dicoverd the Characteristics of a comet.He said they are compact and durable sol bodies moving in an oblique orbit. He described the tails as thin streams of vapor emitted by their nuclei, ignited or heated by the sun . -
Sir Isaac Newton
He found out that comets move around in a elliptical orbit arounf the sun. Elliptical means a egg shape. He founnd out that comets a member of the solar system. Just like planets and that could return over and over again. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
proposed that the jet forces of evaporating material could be great enough to significantly alter a comet's orbit. -
Fred Lawrence Whipple description
discovered thats it not just a rocky having some ice. There actually ice object containing dust and rock. This description came up with the term a dirty snowball. -
Cool FAct
A report based by NASA on meteorites found on earth, was made suggesting that theres DNA and RNA components (adenine, guanine, and related organic molecules) may have been made on comets. -
The tail
ESA scientists said that the ionosphere of the planet Venus streams outward just like a ion tail seen streaming from a comet under similiar conditions
