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How do the tails of the comet and coma relate to loss of matter and the comet's life span?
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Collisions between objects in the Kuiper Belt produce fragments that become comets. The comets are known as short-period comets. Short-period comets take less than 200 years to orbit the sun. Therefore, they return to the inner solar system quite frequently, perhaps every few decades or centuries. Short-period comets also have short life spans. Every time a comet passes the sun, it may lose a later as much as 1m thick.
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What comet has a tail?
All comets have tails when their proximity to the sun is such that the icy debris in the comet is warmed enough to melt and fall away from the comet.
Do all comets have tails?
Because they aren't traveling towards the sun. Comet tails are caused by debries being burned off.
What body forms a tail as it approaches the sun?
Comets are celestial objects that have tails and move around the sun. When a comet is moving toward the sun, its tail points toward the sun.
What is small rocks in space left behind from comet tail?
Two things: 1. Comet tails do not follow along behind the comet. Comet tails always point away from the Sun. 2. Comets are not rocky, they are icy.
Gives comets their tails?
The tail of the comet is made up of melting ice. When the comet gets close to the sun, the melted ice becomes the gaseous tail.
How long are the tails of comets?
It depends on how fast the comet is going.
Why comets have tails?
Because the comet is going so fast there looks like the comet has a tail.
What comet has a tail?
All comets have tails when their proximity to the sun is such that the icy debris in the comet is warmed enough to melt and fall away from the comet.
Do all comets have tails?
Because they aren't traveling towards the sun. Comet tails are caused by debries being burned off.
What body forms a tail as it approaches the sun?
Comets are celestial objects that have tails and move around the sun. When a comet is moving toward the sun, its tail points toward the sun.
What is the distance of comet tails that have been observed to extend?
Some comets have tails reaching 160 million kilometers long.
What is small rocks in space left behind from comet tail?
Two things: 1. Comet tails do not follow along behind the comet. Comet tails always point away from the Sun. 2. Comets are not rocky, they are icy.
Why do comets have tails at certain times?
The Sun boils off material from the comet and this is seen as a "tail".
Do the tails of comets point toward the moon?
Only by accident. A comet's tail will point away from the sun.
What are some famous comets?
Comet HALE-BOPPComet SWIFT-TUTTLE (1992)Comet HYAKUTAKEComet HALLEYMost comets are "famous" because they provide viewable tails, and because they reappear on a regular schedule, or after a period of years.
Gives comets their tails?
The tail of the comet is made up of melting ice. When the comet gets close to the sun, the melted ice becomes the gaseous tail.
What are comet tails mostly made up of?
Dust and gas
