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Such objects can have several different names, depending on their location in the solar system and/or their characteristics.
If the object is close enough to the sun to off-gas some ice or other volatile compounds, it is a comet.
If it orbits the sun, inside the orbit of the outermost planet, it may be a meteoroid or asteroid, depending on the size. If it lies outside the planetary orbit, it may be a Kuiper Belt Object.
If it orbits a planet, it may be a moon, if its big enough, or part of a ring system, if it's small, and accompanied by many other similar objects.
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∙ 15y agoIt is basically a comet, a ball of ice, dirt, and other extraterrestrial substances which has broken off a planet (or a larger comet). This produces a white/blue light when you see the streak of a comet across the sky, as the ice/snow is often melting due to friction (produced by the speed of the comet) and is vaporizing, reflecting the light emitted from the earths atmosphere and sending it back into your vision... Hope this helps, Dr Nicholas Theis
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∙ 9y agoA large ball that is made of dirty snow and ice that flies through outer space is known as a comet. You can see it when it heats up as it gets closer to the sun and are actually formed much farther away.
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∙ 7y agoA big ball of dirty ice and snow in outer space is called a comet.the answer is a comet
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∙ 12y agoA comet - a small body of rock and ice which isin a highly eccentric orbit around the sun.
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∙ 11y ago"Comet" is the answer
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∙ 12y agoIt is called a comet.
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How do scintist predict snow?
They send space people go into space and predict.
What was Coldest summer ever?
About 3/4 of a billion years ago ... the ice-ball (or snow ball) Earth, when the entire planet was covered in snow & ice, the seas frozen.
What is the structure of a snow globe?
a round ball with paper with the world on it.
Does Bill Gates Own Space?
yes bill gate owns space. he also owns the house of snow white and the seven dwarfs.
Is the tail of a comet made of Melted materials?
Comets are usually made of high amounts of Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Water, and also may contain Silica, traces of metal, and oxygen, like a giant dirty snow ball. In space as the cosmic radiation smashes into the comet at near speeds of light and heats the outer layer, bits and pieces fall off and trail behind the comet. For a relatively short while, the chunks fortunate to stay in fairly good sizes or obscured from the light by other chunks or dust, are able to maintain these materials. After gases sublimate and and break down into neutrinos and electrons and such things. The remains are the tougher elements such as silica and metal, However after a while these eventually break up also.
What is a ball of dirty and snow in outer space called?
Comet.
What is ball of dirty ice and snow in outer space?
it's a commet
What is the big ball of dirty ice and snow in outer space?
metor
A big ball of dirty ice and snow in outer space is called?
comet
What is a big ball of dirt and snow in outer space?
A Comet
What is often called a snow ball in space?
A comet, a dirty snowball actually.
Big ball of dirty ice and snow in outer space?
It is usually comets that are reffered to as `large dirty snowballs, they contain mostly ice, but also some rock. They usually originate from the Kuiper belt or Oort cloud.
What thing in space is often called a snow-ball?
Asteroids are sometimes called," Dirty Snowballs".
What is like a big dirty snow ball?
Comets have been described as being like big dirty snowballs. So has the dwarf planet Pluto.
Does it snow in outer space?
No. Snow is a result of moisture being carried up into the atmosphere by convection. There is no atmosphere, moisture, or convection in space to produce snow, though there are, no doubt, ice crystals broken off from comets.
Was earth a giant ball of lava?
Yes. 2nd Answer: Wellll, the Earth has always been a collection of rocky matter from outer space, but at one time, there was about 100,000 feet of snow and ice around the rocky part.
What is a big ball of dirty ice and snow?
It's call a comet it's tail faces away from the sun so it is backwards.
