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Comets & Meteors

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A few of the words

HALLEY
Halley's Comet has been observed and recorded by astronomers for at least 2,000 years, with its appearances documented as far back as 240 BC in Chinese chronicles.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BOLIDE
A bolide is a spectacularly bright fireball that often explodes in the atmosphere, the word comes from the Greek bolís, meaning 'missile' or 'thrown javelin'.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
COMA
The coma is the fuzzy, glowing cloud of gas and dust that surrounds a comet's solid nucleus, it can swell to be larger than some planets.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CRATER
The Barringer Crater in Arizona, roughly 3,900 feet across, was carved by a meteor impact estimated to have occurred about 50,000 years ago.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Comets and meteors word search, where LEONID and HALLEY sit waiting in the grid like old friends you haven't thought about since a clear November night.

About Comets & Meteors

A comet is part ice, part rock, and part ancient dust, a time capsule from the earliest days of the solar system. As it swings close to the Sun, gases and particles stream away to form that luminous tail we've tracked across the sky for thousands of years. Meteors, the swift, bright streaks we call shooting stars, are often nothing more than a grain of that same cosmic dust, burning brilliant for a single breathless second.

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