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Classroom Activity: A Viewgraph Comet . ... This will simulate the Earth's orbit around the Sun. ... Draw several comets along the path with their tails pointing away from the Sun. ... You can create other viewgraphs that have a smaller scale and show several comet orbits or constellations. ... Show how the Earth's orbit is almost circular compared to the comet's. Explain that the Sun is at the focus of the orbits of the planets, asteroids, and comets. ... Actually, comets have two tails. ...

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... 2012 August 10 . Perseid Below . Credit: Ron Garan, ISS Expedition 28 Crew , NASA . Explanation: Denizens of planet Earth watched last year's Perseid meteor shower by looking up into the bright moonlit night sky . ... From Garan's perspective onboard the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below, swept up dust left from comet Swift-Tuttle heated to incandescence. ... Want to look up at this year's Perseid meteor shower? ...

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... Earth is the tiny spot between Jupiter and the Sun). ... Distance Radius Mass Name Orbits (000 km) (km) (kg) --------- ------- -------- ------- ------- Sun 697000 1.99e30 Jupiter Sun 778000 71492 1.90e27 Saturn Sun 1429000 60268 5.69e26 Uranus Sun 2870990 25559 8.69e25 * Neptune Sun 4504300 24764 1.02e26 * Earth Sun 149600 6378 5.98e24 Venus Sun 108200 6052 4.87e24 Mars Sun 227940 3398 6.42e23 Ganymede Jupiter 1070 2631 1.48e23 + Titan ... Extrema .. ...

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... August 30, 1999 . Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth . ... Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. ... Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon . This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station , as Mir is being decommissioned after more than ten years of productive use. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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