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Comets are like "dirty snowballs"; frozen gasses with dust and rocks in them. Each pass near the Sun causes the comet's nucleus to be exposed to intense sunlight, which causes some tiny fraction of the gas to evaporate and carry some of the dust and rock away into space. The gas and dust, near the Sun, cause the comet's "tail", and repeated passes cause dust and rock to spread out along most of the orbit of a comet. When the Earth enters one of these trails of old comet dust, we have meteor showers.
On rare occasions, comets break apart or even more rarely, crash into planets. In 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke apart and then collided with the planet Jupiter.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoAs a comet nears the sun, a tail forms from the solar wind blowing off dust particles from the comet. The tail lengthens as the solar wind intensifies and the comet approaches closer and closer. In some cases, comets have been known to collide with the sun, fragment, or completely burn away due to the sun.
Comets are made partially by ice, and the trail is some melting ice. This is the reason we see the trail behind the sun.
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∙ 15y agoit gains and loses a coma and tail
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What is a chunk of ice mixed with rocks?
it is a comet it flies through outer space!!
Comets tail always point toward the sun?
No. Comets tails always point away from the sun. I believe the are a result of the heat and solar winds projected out from the sun which strip material off from the comet as it travels through space.
What is an icy piece of rock fragment moving through space?
That, my friend would be a Comet.
How sound travels through air and objects to the ear?
Sound travels through particles which vibrate in solids liquids or gases, which is why sound can't travel through vacuums like space.
Light travels through space as electromagnetic what?
exhibits wavelike behavior
What is a ball of ice dust and gasses that travels through space and orbits the sun?
a comet/meteorite
Something that travels in space?
A comet or asteroid.
What streaks through space with a tail?
Comet
When solar energy travels from the sun through a vacuum of space to the earth?
Energy from the sun travels through the vacuum of space by radiation.
How heat travels through empty space?
Heat travels through empty spaces by radiation.
What object can be found traveling through space starting with c?
A comet.
What is a body that moves through space starting with c called?
comet
A machine that travels from earth through space is called?
space probe
How are comet tails made?
The heat of the sun heats the material that forms the comet and creates gas that the comet leaves behind as it travels. There are usually two distinct types of tails, one is straight, the other wavy. Some of the tail will be wavy because of "solar wind". It is not through friction of any sort since there is no friction in space.
Why cant you get energy from the sun through convection?
Convection travels through matter. It won't travel through empty space.Convection travels through matter. It won't travel through empty space.Convection travels through matter. It won't travel through empty space.Convection travels through matter. It won't travel through empty space.
Does light travels slowest through space?
As the medium through which light propagates in space is closes to a vacuum, light propagates very well in space. However, it travels at the same speed as it would on earth, as light travels at 299,792,458m/s in a vacuum, regardless of where that vacuum is located. the light travels in same speed whether it travels in space or earth.
What materials can light travel through faster than it travels through air?
Light travels fastest through space which has no air. Space is a vacuum which is the fastest way for light to travel.
