How are comet and asteroids alike and different?

Answer 1

Asteroids are rocky and have a relatively circular orbit around the Sun.

Comets are icy and have a stretched oval-shaped orbit around the Sun.

Answer 2

Asteroids are the celestial bodies found in between the spaces of the planets of the solar system. But comets are mysterious bodies that go far away from the known solar system and come back once very rarely.

Answer 3

They are similar in size and both orbit the sun directly. Comets contain a lot more ice, its composition is more like a dirty snowball, while an asteroid is more like a rock. The asteroids are generally closer to the sun, while comets originate from far out beyond Neptune, on the edge of the solar system and have been deflected off their large orbits into highly eccentric orbits that occasionally take them close to the sun.

Answer 4

Asteroids and comets are both small space objects in orbit around the sun. The major difference is that comets pass close enough to the sun to ionize their outer core and create a visible tail while asteroids do not.