Multiple Choice
What is the path of comets around the sun?
A) They range far beyond the planetary part of our solar system and loop past the sun and back into outer space.
B) Their path is the same as Earth.
C) They have a circular orbit around the sun.
D) They orbit Earth, not the sun.
E) They don't orbit the sun; they are pulled to the sun by its gravity and eventually crash into it.
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