Creating Comets with Common Materials
Complete with glowing tails and heads visible to the naked eye, comets have visited the skies often
in the past few years; Halley, Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake. Students combined dry ice, corn syrup, soil,
sand and ammonia to create models of comets formed in the depths of space. The finished products
resembled comets in different stages of creation and disintegration...

Let me "enlighten" you...              A pinch of this, a cup of that, mix and compact... Viola!
                
 

 What does "little c" mean? Protect those fingers and hands to make the perfect comet...
                
 

OK - Put those gloves on and dive in! Are you sure this will work? Aha! Success is a few squeezes away!
                
 

Here we have the raw materials... Now they are partially compressed... This is a comet, without the tail.