Title: What is a Comet Exactly? Aristotelian Philosophers vs
The Aristotelian philosophers decided that comets were disasters that happened in the atmosphere of the earth. Comets were not permanent in the atmosphere. Since they appeared and disappeared, the comets “fuzzy-glow” appearance changed. This led the philosophers to, without human intervention; consign the comets to the orb between the Moon and the Earth. They were able to do this by position studies of the heavens. The Aristotelian philosophers came to the conclusion that comets were caused by the rubbing of the orb’s turning against the upper levels of the air.(Sobel, 88) Galileo disagreed with the Aristotelian philosophers about the location of comets. Galileo believed that comets dwelled in the Earth’s atmosphere, contrary to dwelling in the orb between the Earth and the Moon. Galileo considered comets to . . .
A comet is defined as a celestial body that consists of a fuzzy head, surrounding a bright nucleus, highly eccentric orbit, and that often when in the part of its orbit near the sun develops a long tail which points away from the sun. (Sobel, 89) My position: Honestly, I do not agree with either Aristotelian philosophers or Galileo whole heartedly. I still do not have a full understanding of comets since I do not study astronomy. There has been one comet in my lifetime, but I did not see it. The satellites that observed Halley’s Comet revealed it to be a murky cluster of freezing debris. The fact that they are an oddity makes them more beautiful. He concluded that they were more than likely only mirror images of sunlight rebounded off of high-altitude steams. Once again I agree and disagree with Aristotelian philosophers’ and with Galileo’s explanation for comets. be out of the ordinary illuminations in the air. It is has a totally different make up. This can only be proved be the technology that astronomers and astronauts use to explore the heavens. If I had to make my own explanation for comets without any of the knowledge that I have today I would simply says that a comet was a huge shooting star that only appeared once and a while. If this is true then a comet is not a mixture of gases like a star. When I was younger I used to think that comets were pieces of the sun that broke off and would orbit around the Earth until they burned out. It was bigger that any shooting star and only appeared once in a lifetime.
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