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What state of matter is comets?
The nucleus of a comet is mostly solid, while the coma and tail of the comet is composed of gasses and (we believe) a lot of dust. As the comet approaches the Sun, sunlight heats the nucleus of the comet and melts some of the frozen gasses, which sublimate into space carrying dust into space, forming the coma and the tail of the comet.
Which of these always contains ice meteors asteroids or comets?
Comets
When did Houston Comets end?
Houston Comets ended in 2008.
When was Houston Comets created?
Houston Comets was created in 1997.
Does Halley's comet atmosphere?
Good question,but NO comets do not really have lots of gravity to have a atmosphere.But they have two tails i'll tell you what they are called,one is a Rocky Tail while another is an ion tail that extends millions of miles into space. They also have a nucleus, which is basically the center of the comet. So hoped I helped ya!! :)
What is the glowing head of comets called?
It is called a Coma.
Why don't asteroids and meteors do not have a coma?
Because they do not have volatiles in them to form a coma as to comets.
What are the 3 parts of comets?
Nucleus coma tail
What is comets main points?
The tail, the coma, and the nucleus.
What are the parts to comets?
1-nucleus 2-coma 3-tail
What three things are comets made of?
Comets are made of mainly 3 parts -dust tail, ion tail and coma
What celestial term is from a greek word that means long haired?
Its the word ''coma'' and its the gas around the center of a comet that forms when it passes around the sun. (not to be confused with the comets tail)
When will you be able to see a comets coma?
When you hit it very hard over the head.
Cloud vaporized gases around a comets nucleus?
Scientifically it would be a coma.
How are meteorides and comets different?
comets have a halo/coma/tail surrounding and behind it caused by evaporation of ice. Metorides dont have this. Comets have high eccentrical orbits, meteroides not as much.
What is the hazy cloud surrounding the center of a comet?
The coma is the cloud of gas and dust that surrounds the nucleus of a comet. This is caused by the Sun heating the icy surface of the comet, which sublimates into gas and throws off dust. Some comets have small explosions, almost like eruptions, when a particularly dense pocket of gas erupts from the nucleus. The dust and gas, being so light, is carried away by the solar wind to form the tail of the comet. It's an interesting fact that the tail of the comet always points AWAY from the Sun, so on its way out into space, the comet is actually moving tail-first.
Why comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not?
Beacuse asteroids are chunks of solid rock - Comets are primarily lumps of ice - which melts as it nears the sun !
