Comet Tale

SCIENCE NEWS
2023 Oct 13th
New Comet Found Recently

Comets, an icy dirt ball in our solar system.
Formed from left overs of planets, astroids, and
frozen gasses, with a bumpy and rough texture.
Lately on the day of September, 20th, 2023, two
scientist from Shanghai, China named Adrienne
Zhou and Mathew Meng have discovered a
comet that has a diameter of the nucleus of total Adrienne Zhou
38 miles which rounds up to 61 km. They
manages to name their comet “ Spirit Of The
Frost”. As some may know, the normal size of a
comet is about 1-10 km. That claims that “Spirit
Of The Frost” is about 6 times as large as a normal
comet. This also means that its coma is about
61,000 km because a comets nucleus is 1,000 or
more times smaller than the coma. Spirit Of The Frost
People often have questions about comets. How
they form, what they are made of and other
exclusive questions. A lot of people seem to be very
curious about the relationship between comets and
life on earth. Thanks to scientists like Adrienne and
Mathew, we have discovered and solved many
things we didn’t know and were curious about.
“The coma of a comet is formed when the nucleus
experiences sublimation. The frozen carbon dioxide
and carbon monoxide sublimates and turns into
gasses. The gasses surround the nucleus, therefor we
have the coma. The coma of a comet is able to
reach 1000 times larger than the nucleus, but they
aren’t always that large. Due to its orbital path, the
closer the comet is from the sun, the bigger the
coma and the tails are because when the comet is
closer, the heat from the sun effects its sublimation.”
Comets are unlike other astroids because they have tails. Not one, but two. The
newest discovered comet Spirit Of The Frost’s dust tail has the length of 5.4 million
miles also known as about 8 million kilometers, and the ion tail has the length of 2.3
astronomical units. We all must have lots of questions about tails because of its
length compared to the nucleus. According to Adrienne’s speech, ion tails are made
out of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and molecular nitrogen. Dust tails are
simply made out of dust particles. Both the tails and the coma are created due to
outgassing. Outgassing is when a solid releases frozen gasses, it includes both
sublimation and evaporation.
In their discovery, they noticed that the
tails always point away from the sun.
Mathew claims that It it because of the
solar wind which is particles from the
sun that travels through the entire solar
system. It sweeps the dust and the gas
of the coma into long tail shapes and
away from the sun. Like said before,
the tail grows as it gets closer to the sun
due to the heat that the sun produces.
They also noticed that when the comet
gets closer to the sun, not only does the
tail get larger, the speed of the comets
orbit also accelerates.
On September, 23rd, 2023 Adrienne and
Mathew posted their reasoning for why
the speed accelerates. “We all know that
kinetic energy is the energy to make
something move. When comets get closer
to the sun, the kinetic energy increases,
causing a gravitational pull. The increase
of gravity leads to the increase of speed.
That’s why when a comet gets closer to
the sun, it speeds up.” Adrienne and
Mathew have said that comets orbit
around the sun in long oval shapes and
usually orbits in higher angles than planets
do. This weird orbital path is due to
gravity from other small planets and stars.
Recently on October, 4th, 2023 Adrienne has replied to the question
millions of people were wondering about. Where do comets come
from? “Comets come from the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt. The
Oort Cloud is a collection of icy objects, dust particles, dwarf planets and
billions of comets shaped into a sphere shell that surrounds the sun and
our entire solar system and is also the edge of our solar system. The
comets that are formed there are called “long period comets” and they
take more than 200 years, some even up to 1,000,000 years to orbit the
sun. On the other hand, the Kuiper Belt is also made of icy objects, dust
particles, dwarf planets, and comets, but instead of a sphere shape, they
form into a doughnut shape that is seen around the sun, and orbits
beyond Neptune. Comets that are formed in the Kuiper Belt are called
“short period comets”. These comets take less than 200 years to orbit
around the sun. Some may even be possible to see twice in a life
time”The new discovered Spirit Of the Frost is a short period comet and
is claimed that it will be able to see in another 143 years.

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