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The solar wind (energetic particles from the Sun) blows them off the nucleus, or comet body. If seeing is good, there are usually two tails, a gas tail and a dust tail.
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Why do comments have tails?
Why do comets have tails
Do asteroids tails burn?
No, they do not burn only comets have tails.
Do only comets have tails or no?
yes
Do meteorites have tails?
No, that would be comets.
What is the balls of ice in the sky with tails?
Comets
Do comets change form over time?
They won't change form, but willslowly thaw and disperse: their tails are of material streaming from their surfaces as they approach the Sun.
What are the icy objects with huge trials that orbit the sun?
Tails, not trials. They're called comets, and their "tails" form when the comet gets near the sun, vaporizing away some of the ice.
What makes up the tails of comets?
rocks and dust
When are comets tails present?
When they reach the inner solar system.
How long are the tails of comets?
It depends on how fast the comet is going.
Does Mars have tails?
In the sense that an observer can see tails on comets - no, the gravity and composition of Mars is not favorable to the production of a tail.
Do all comets have tails?
Because they aren't traveling towards the sun. Comet tails are caused by debries being burned off.
