Are comets falling stars

Answer 1

Asteroids are generally in fairly ordinary orbits around the Sun, while comets fall in from deep space, pass by the Sun at a blazing speed, and retreat into deep space. When the comet is passing nearest the Sun, it is moving far more quickly than any asteroid.

When it is at its most distant, the comet is barely moving at all.

Answer 2

Neither of these is of a uniform size. For any given pair, one of them will probably be bigger, though which one it's going to be is kind of random. The largest asteroids are significantly larger than the largest comets, though.

Answer 3

No, "shooting star" and "falling star" are other names for a meteor. "Shooting" and "falling" sort of implies a visible movement, and a meteor generally flares, streaks across the sky and is gone within a couple of seconds.

A comet is generally visible in the same area of the sky night after night, and does not show any perceptible motion over the course of a few hours.

Answer 4

A meteor is not any kind of star. The terms "Shooting star" or "Falling star" are incorrectly used to describe them. As they burn and fly across the sky, they do look a bit like stars, but they are in fact small items like rocks, stones or even pieces of dust.

Answer 5

A meteor is NOT a star. It's a piece of rock flying through space. I think you are probably trying to mention shooting stars. Well people say as shooting stars but they are not actually stars. They are the meteors will fall into the earth's atmosphere and start burning due to friction with the air particles thus the luminance which led it to be called such.

Answer 6

Meteors are the lights in the sky, once thought to be weather phenomena ("Meteorology" is the study of weather). The rocks left on the ground by meteors are meteorites, and the pebbles that haven't yet become meteors are meteoroids.

Comets and asteroids are much different. For one thing, they're much bigger. A typical meteor is made by a body the size of a grain of sand up to the size of a pea; comets can be miles across and some asteroids are hundreds of miles in diameter (though most are smaller).

Answer 7

That would depend on the asteroid, and on the comet. We don't know a whole lot about the structure of either; we've landed one space probe on an asteroid, and collided a refrigerator-sized impactor into a comet, but there are millions of each and we don't know if they are all similar. I suspect that they are not.

So the proper answer is "We don't know - yet."

Answer 8

A meteor is not a star. It is sometimes called a "shooting star", because it looks like a fast-moving star. But a meteor is simply a speck of dust that enters the Earth's atmosphere.

A meteor is not a star. It is sometimes called a "shooting star", because it looks like a fast-moving star. But a meteor is simply a speck of dust that enters the Earth's atmosphere.

A meteor is not a star. It is sometimes called a "shooting star", because it looks like a fast-moving star. But a meteor is simply a speck of dust that enters the Earth's atmosphere.

A meteor is not a star. It is sometimes called a "shooting star", because it looks like a fast-moving star. But a meteor is simply a speck of dust that enters the Earth's atmosphere.

Answer 9

No. A comet is a mass of ice and dust in space with a tail caused by ice evaporating in the heat of the sun. A falling star, more properly called a meteor, is a fragment of rock burning up in the atmosphere.

Answer 10

Sometimes the term "shooting star" or "falling star" is used to describe a meteor.