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Exploring CometsReflections on comets, missions and modeling |
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Created for the Deep Impact Mission, a NASA Discovery Mission
Maura Rountree-Brown and Art Hammon
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- What are your ideas about comets?
What are comets? Where did they first originate? What components make up a comet? What don't we know about comets? Draw a diagram of what a comet might look like.
- After doing some research, what new ideas do you have about comets, their origin and composition? What are the physical parts of a comet?
Compare your new information with the list that you built as a class. Draw a diagram of a comet as you now understand it.
- What ideas do you have about why scientists explore comets?
Why do they want to know about them? Why would more information make a difference to them?
- Pick one of the questions scientists had about comets and decide what kind of mission might find the answer.
How would you investigate a comet? What kind of a mission would you put together? What kind of real or imagined technology would you use? What would you need to know first?
- What kind of "model" would you build to test the details of your design and show your comet's possible environment?
- Research to see what real comet space missions exist and what kinds of technologies they are using. Other Small Bodies Missions
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