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A comet's 3 main parts are nucleus, coma and tail. The nucleus is the heart of a comet. A coma is the gas and dust that forms a cloud around the nucleus. The tail is a blazing streamer from the coma, it is million of miles long
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoHead: The front of the comet
Nucleus: Middle of comet
Coma: The coma is a halo of evaporated gas (water vapor, ammonia, carbon dioxide) and dust that surrounds the nucleus. The coma is made as the comet warms up
Tail: The end of the comet
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∙ 14y agoComets are usually made primarily from ice. Essentially everything that's floating around in space could be found in a Comet. Some of the commonly known materials include:
* Ice
* Ionizing Gasses * Gasses which do not ionize (Condensed Gasses) * Amonia * Dirt (Iron, Aluminum, Sulfur and pretty much anything really that may have been floating around in space)
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∙ 9y agoA smaller asteroid is simply a piece of rock, or ice. It doesn't necessarily have any parts. Larger asteroids - the largest have a diameter of several hundred kilometers - are likely to have layers, similar to planets.
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∙ 14y ago== == The 3 main parts of a comet are the Nucleus, Coma, and the tail. The Nucleus is the head of the comet, the Coma is the middle & the tail is the end of the comet.
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∙ 11y agothe description of a compositon of an orbit is the sun trying to do anything to help it rotate.
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∙ 14y agoComets are mostly frozen carbon dioxide and water, with a smattering of other things making them look like dirty snowballs.
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∙ 11y agoNucleus coma and tail
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∙ 14y agoThe Nucleus, Coma, and Tail
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∙ 12y agoice, dust, rock
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What are 3 main layers of the comet?
The three main layers of the comet is nucleus, coma, and the tail.
What three things make up a comet?
That depends. What are you asking, the parts of a comet or the composition of a comet? For the parts, there is the nucleus, which is the very center of the comet and what it is actually made of, then the coma surrounds the nucleus, then the tail trails behind it. A comet's nucleus is made up of dirty ice and rock. The tail is often made of gas or dust. Sometimes the comet has two tails, one of dust and one of gas. Hope this helps! :)
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Yes a nucleus of a comet is made of ice because a comet nuclei are loose collections of ice, we need to break down the three main parts of a comet a nucleus, coma, and the tail.
What are 3 main layers of the comet?
The three main layers of the comet is nucleus, coma, and the tail.
What three things make up a comet?
That depends. What are you asking, the parts of a comet or the composition of a comet? For the parts, there is the nucleus, which is the very center of the comet and what it is actually made of, then the coma surrounds the nucleus, then the tail trails behind it. A comet's nucleus is made up of dirty ice and rock. The tail is often made of gas or dust. Sometimes the comet has two tails, one of dust and one of gas. Hope this helps! :)
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