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Comets are made of rock, dust, ice, and frozen gases. When comets approach the Sun, the frozen gases explosively sublime, forming the comet's coma (nebulous central mass) and scattering dust and ice into the solar wind. Lighter dust and photo-dissociated water molecules create the "tail" of the comet, which solar photons push outward in the direction away from the Sun.
Samples were retrieved from the comet 81P/Wild (Wild 2) by NASA's Stardust mission in 2006.
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A comets ion tail consist of?
it consists of dust from little pieces from other planets......Dust
What do comets contain the most of?
Comets consist of mostly dust and ice, along with some carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia and other things. It starts out as an icy body and as it moves closer to the sun, it creates a tail that has gases and dust.
What do comets and asteroids not have in common?
Comets are Comets and Asteroids are Asteroids
How are comets classified?
how are comets classfied
Do comets or asteroids have a gas tail?
Comets!
What is your solar system consist?
The Sun, planets, moons, planetoids, asteroids, dust, gas, comets.
A comets ion tail consist of?
it consists of dust from little pieces from other planets......Dust
What does the Andromeda galaxy consist of?
The same as all the other galaxies.Black holes, Stars, Planets, Asteroids, Comets and other space material. Maybe even space junk!!
What do comets contain the most of?
Comets consist of mostly dust and ice, along with some carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia and other things. It starts out as an icy body and as it moves closer to the sun, it creates a tail that has gases and dust.
What do comets and asteroids not have in common?
Comets are Comets and Asteroids are Asteroids
Who invented comets?
comets
Which of these always contains ice meteors asteroids or comets?
Comets
Frozen masses of gases and rocks?
in outer space we call them comets. on earth, we call them snowballs. Comets are thought to originate in Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud and consist of debris frozen together. Comets orbit in an elliptical pattern around the sun and produce the tail when near it. Snowballs, on the other hand, are usually formed only during the wintertime and tend to orbit in straight lines toward people's heads.
How are comets classified?
how are comets classfied
How many comets are there on planet Neptune?
There are no comets on Neptune because Neptune is a planet and comets are, well, comets. They have nothing to do with each other.
Does planet mercury have comets?
comets crash into all planets!Planets don't have comets. Planets have moons. Comets orbit the sun
What is the possessive noun for comets?
The singular form is comet, the plural form is comets, the possessive plural is comets'. Example: The comets' paths will not cross.
