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Frozen masses of gases and rocks?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

in outer space we call them comets. on earth, we call them snowballs. Comets are thought to originate in Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud and consist of debris frozen together. Comets orbit in an elliptical pattern around the sun and produce the tail when near it. Snowballs, on the other hand, are usually formed only during the wintertime and tend to orbit in straight lines toward people's heads.

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