2006-12-14 13:02:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Everyone so far is right, it is comets since they can come from as far away as half a light year and nearly touch the Sun at their closest. Some hit the Sun. Shoemaker-Levy-9 hit Jupiter.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/levy.htm
2006-12-14 13:30:17 · answer #1 · answered by Zefram 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comets
2006-12-14 13:16:41 · answer #2 · answered by bldudas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comets -- come from far out in the Kuiper belt and in close to the sun.
2006-12-14 13:05:12 · answer #3 · answered by gerardw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
comet would have the most eccentric.
2006-12-14 17:59:20 · answer #4 · answered by nasa_partha_malakar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comets.
Some of them follow hyperbolic paths instead of elliptic ones and will never return.
2006-12-14 13:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋