Educator's Guide to Kitchen Comets . ... When a comet nucleus is gravitationally drawn into the inner solar system it begins to heat up. ... You can make an accurate model of a comet nucleus easily and inexpensively. ... Dry Ice (5 lbs) available from ice companies or ice cream parlors; CAUTION: Dry ice is -79 degrees C (-110 degrees F). ... Water, ammonia, organic (carbon based) molecules, and silicates are all present on comet nuclei. ... Observe the behavior of your miniature comet nucleus. ...
... no comet has been observed with an orbit that indicates that it came from interstellar space, . ... From this he proposed that comets reside in a vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system. ... Unfortunately, since the individual comets are so small and at such large distances, we have no direct evidence about the Oort Cloud. ... T he Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. ... Small Bodies .. ...
MARSES Project Information . MARSES is an integrated research experiment devoted to searching for water, water-ice or permafrost layers believed to exist at some depth under the visible surface of Mars. ... Secondary tasks are the measurement of the soil properties of the subsurface of Mars which include porosity, electrical resistance of the liquid phase, thermal conductivity, temperature dependence. ... Jean?s escape of water via the atmosphere is very slow (of the order of 3 m over 5 Gy). ...