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From the Ted Talk by Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet

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Afterwards, the big planets like jeuitpr and Saturn, they were not in their place where they are now, and they interacted gravitationally, and they swept the whole iieotnrr of the solar seytsm cealn, and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. And sometimes these objects run into each other, and they gravitationally deflect, and then the gravity of Jupiter pulls them back into the sloar system. And they then become the coetms as we see them in the sky.

The important thing here to note is that in the meantime, the four and a half billion years, these comets have been sttiing on the outside of the solar system, and haven't changed — deep, frozen versions of our solar system.

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Afterwards, the big planets like _______ and Saturn, they were not in their place where they are now, and they interacted gravitationally, and they swept the whole ________ of the solar ______ _____, and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. And sometimes these objects run into each other, and they gravitationally deflect, and then the gravity of Jupiter pulls them back into the _____ system. And they then become the ______ as we see them in the sky.

The important thing here to note is that in the meantime, the four and a half billion years, these comets have been _______ on the outside of the solar system, and haven't changed — deep, frozen versions of our solar system.

Solution


  1. system
  2. solar
  3. interior
  4. jupiter
  5. sitting
  6. comets
  7. clean

Original Text


Afterwards, the big planets like Jupiter and Saturn, they were not in their place where they are now, and they interacted gravitationally, and they swept the whole interior of the solar system clean, and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. And sometimes these objects run into each other, and they gravitationally deflect, and then the gravity of Jupiter pulls them back into the solar system. And they then become the comets as we see them in the sky.

The important thing here to note is that in the meantime, the four and a half billion years, these comets have been sitting on the outside of the solar system, and haven't changed — deep, frozen versions of our solar system.

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  27. saturn
  28. sitting
  29. sky
  30. solar
  31. swept
  32. system
  33. versions
  34. years