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Q: Do comets or asteroids have a gas tail?
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What do comets and asteroids not have in common?

Comets are Comets and Asteroids are Asteroids


Is a comet an asteroid?

Comets and asteroids are the same, but differ in the fact that comets have surface activity with their characteristic tail.


What is the smallest asteroids moons comets planets?

Asteroids and Comets


What is a comets tail hardly made of?

gas


Which asteroids and comets are on Mercury?

There are no known asteroids or comets that have impacted Mercury.


How are comets asteroids and meteorites different?

Asteroids orbit the Sun between the orbits of the planet Mars and the planet Jupiter. Comets orbit the Sun on very elliptical orbits, originating from the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune or the Oort cloud at the edges of the solar system. Comets are also usually (but not always) icy bodies that give of gas and dust (a tail) as they approach and get heated by the Sun. Meteorites are bodies that were Asteroids or Comets that have hit the planet Earth and landed on the surface.


How are meteors asteroids and comets the same and different?

well meteors are usually boiling like comets, however asteroids are usually a formation of gas and ice but they all form in outer space


What are the three major parts of asteroids?

asteroid then gas tail and then dust tail


Are asteroids composed of rock and frozen gas?

Not really, you're thinking of comets, asteroids are composed of rock, metal, or a combination of both.


What are some examples of superstitious beliefs in Philippines about comets and asteroids?

Many cultures have superstitious beliefs about comets and asteroids. The Philippines do not seem to share superstitions of comets and asteroids.


What is the differences and similarities between comets asteroids and meteors?

guess wut comets have 3 parts the head [nucleus] and the tail obviously but the third is the coma that holds the gasses that make the tail meteors are and can become meteors meteorites and meteoroids meteors are passing through our atmosphere meteroids are meteors in space meteorites have hit earth asteroids are basically meteors that have reached 6 miles wide 3 of the biggest ones are considered dwarf planets ceres [eris] vesta and sedan


What is your solar system consist?

The Sun, planets, moons, planetoids, asteroids, dust, gas, comets.