Q. With reference to comets, consider the following statements:
1.Short period comets are found in the Kuiper Belt.
2.The tail of a comet is made up of dust particles and electrically charged gas molecules.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer: C
Notes:
Both statements are correct.
- Comets are mostly found way out in the solar system. Some exist in a wide disk beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. These are called short-period comets. They take less than 200 years to orbit the Sun.
- Other comets live in the Oort Cloud, the sphere-shaped, outer edge of the solar system that is about 50 times farther away from the Sun than the Kuiper Belt. These are called long-period comets because they take much longer to orbit the Sun.
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