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Actually generally speaking Asteroids are heavily composed of high density rock. Dust and Ice are generally the properties of a Comet mostly because they aren't formed near the sun.

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What small objects are made of ice and dust asteroids comets meteors or meteorites?

Some comets are made of ice and dust.


Are Asteroids made up of dust and ice.?

Actually generally speaking Asteroids are heavily composed of high density rock. Dust and Ice are generally the properties of a Comet mostly because they aren't formed near the sun.


How are asteroids and meteors alike?

They are both in space and there made of rock, dust, and ice and they can see them here on earth.


Why are chunks of rock ice and dust considered a part of the solar system?

im guessing that its because asteroids are made of rock and some rings of planet are made of ice and dust as some of the planet. if its a school question i hope u get it right and if you get it wrong im sorri :(


Is Comet or Asteroids made of rock or metal?

Comets are a mix of dust, rock, and ice, while asteroids are primarily made of rock and metal. Comets usually have a tail when they approach the Sun due to the melting of the ice, while asteroids do not have tails.


What are the Two main substance asteroids are made from?

Asteroids are primarily rock and ice


What things rotate around the sun?

planets, rocks, asteroids, comets, dust particles, ice particles..


Is a rock in space called comets or asteroids?

Asteroids are rocky or metallic. Comets are made mostly of various types of ice, although they also contain some amount of dust and rock mixed in. A rock in space might also be a meteor.


What space objects are made of chunks of rock?

Asteroids, meteoroids, and comets are space objects that are made of chunks of rock. Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun within the asteroid belt, meteoroids are smaller rocky fragments that travel through space, and comets are a mixture of rock, dust, ice, and frozen gases.


What substances make up most of the solar system classify them as gas rock or ice?

Asteroids toward the sun and Mercury dust particals lack of moon


Is comets made of ice rocks and dust?

Comets are made mainly from ice, with a slight mixture of small rocks and dust.


How are coments different from asteroids?

Comets are composed mostly of ice while asteroids are mostly made of rock or metal.