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Celestial Buddies Celestial Buddies Comet Buddy

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Comet�I'm a long distance traveler! We are restless wanderers, taking elongated orbits around the Sun. Our orbits may take us very far away, but some day, we will return! I can be described as more→a dirty snowball because I'm made mostly of frozen water and dust. Some scientists believe that comets are responsible for bringing some water and organic molecules to Earth's surface at the beginning of the Solar System. My most distinctive characteristic is my "coma" or tail sweeping out behind me as I travel through space. This tail is a result of passing close to the Sun, evaporating my ice into water and releasing dust. We comets orbit the Sun, but in elongated elliptical orbits, not ci…

Celestial Buddies Celestial Buddies Pluto & Charon Buddy

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Pluto and Charon�have a heart, love a planet! Pluto I'm a dwarf with a heart! I was discovered in 1930 by the astronomer Clyde Tombaugh as the ninth planet from the Sun, but I was reclassified a more→s a "dwarf planet" in 2006. In 2015, NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft sent back lots of scientific data and beautiful photos of me, some which show a giant heart-shaped area on my face, but you wouldn't want to try to live on me. I'm mostly made of rock and ice, I'm very cold, and my atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, with some methane and carbon monoxide. Plus, I am so far from the Sun that even daylight here is fainter than twilight on Earth. Charon I was discovered in 1978 and am the largest of…