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Given an image or animation of a body in space, the learner identifies it as a comet when (and only when) it is a frozen body of ice, dust, and rock that orbits the Sun (visible tail near the Sun; no tail when far from the Sun).

grade level
5
frames
16
  1. 01What is a comet made of?
  2. 02Why does this comet have a visible tail?
  3. 03What kind of space object are we looking at?
  4. 04Is this dark object a comet?
  5. 05Which statement best describes this object?
  6. 06What is this object?
  7. 07Why is Vesta considered an asteroid and not a comet?
  8. 08What kind of object is Mars?
  9. 09Based on its glowing tail, what is this object?
  10. 10What is this rocky object?
  11. 11What kind of object is this?
  12. 12What is this object?
  13. 13What is this dark, icy object?
  14. 14What is this massive spherical object?
  15. 15What is this spectacular object?
  16. 16Identify this space object.

Here is a dark, frozen body made of ice, dust, and rock orbiting the Sun. It does not have a tail right now, but we know it contains ice.

We are looking at a close-up image of a distant frozen comet nucleus. It looks like a dark, irregularly shaped chunk of rock and ice covered in craters, floating in deep space with absolutely no glowing tail visible.
We are looking at a close-up image of a distant frozen comet nucleus. It looks like a dark, irregularly shaped chunk of rock and ice covered in craters, floating in deep space with absolutely no glowing tail visible.

Prompt

What is this object?