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Riding bareback on a comet
1 Where do comets come from?
2 a) How does a comet's tail form?
b) Why does the tail always point away from the sun?
c) Does a comet always have a tail?
3 Explain why a comet travels fastest at perihelion.
4 Explain how a space probe can change its path from a circular
orbit to an elliptical orbit.
5 The penetrator fired at the comet sank one foot (30 cm) into the surface.
Its speed at the point of impact was 500 ms -1 . Calculate the average deceleration of the penetrator after impact.
6 The comet has a nucleus of diameter 6 miles (10 km). Its density is about
1000 kgm -3 . Calculate the gravitational field strength near to its surface.
[G = 6.7x10 -11 Nm 2 kg -2 ]