Yes, they most certainly can.A few years ago, a large comet crashed into Jupiter, releasing a tremendous amount of energy.
Any cosmic object (star, planet, meteorit, comet) has a chemical composition.
The universe is a big place, and there's any number of places a comet we've lost site of could go. It could fly off in to a distant reach of space, it could impact a planet or asteroid, or it could even fly in to a sun and burn up.
some scientist have an answer they say that Pluto is not an planet but a comet also they say there are eleven planets
Same as any other comet: away from the Sun.Same as any other comet: away from the Sun.Same as any other comet: away from the Sun.Same as any other comet: away from the Sun.
Halley's Comet is not dangerous to Earth. It poses no threat to our planet and its orbit is well-studied, so we can predict its movements accurately. The last time it was visible from Earth was in 1986, and it is not expected to return until 2061.
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Answer 1: The comet would have to be the size of Mars. Answer 2: To literally destroy the entire planet of Earth, breaking it up into fragments, yes, the above answer may be true. However, any asteroid or comet of 1 kilometer diameter or more would give us serious troubles. And at 5 kilometers wide, would certainly end our civilization, if not quite us. Past that, we would all die, as would all life. Well, most all life bigger than microbes.
Could you provide more context or specify which planet you are referring to?
Because the gas giants have enormous atmospheres and what we see is the top of the dense cloudy atmosphere, which people cannot stand on. Beneath that the rock surface is so deep down that the atmospheric pressure would crush any machine.
Any of them because there is no set size for any of them. All of them are classified by different things and none of them are size. A moon orbits a planet, a planet orbits a star in a slightly elliptical orbit, a comet orbits a star in a highly elliptical orbit, and an asteroid is a planet or moon (any celestial object really) that is out of orbit and is flying through the universe a high speeds. For instance, a moon can be bigger than a planet.
Are you asking how big the crater would be if it struck the Earth? In one sense, it would depend on the size of the comet and the speed; in another sense, it might not matter at all. The kinetic energy of any object is the mass times the velocity squared. Calculate the approximate mass of the comet, multiply it by the collision speed. If the comet were to come from behind, the impact velocity would be lower than if the comet hit us "head on". Whatever the comet's velocity, you would need to add the Earth's escape velocity; any object falling to Earth from space will have a additional velocity from Earth's gravity, which is 7 miles per second, about 25,000 miles per hour. Here's why it really wouldn't matter; if the comet is big enough and fast enough, it won't create a crater; it will re-make the Earth itself. The comet could punch THROUGH the crust of the planet, releasing the magma, the liquid rock in the mantle. If it's big enough, it could wipe out humanity, and many other species on Earth.
Any theory could be right.