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Is a comet bigger than an asteroid?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Depends on the asteroid and the comet. The core of a comet is typically anywhere from one mile to up to rarely 50 miles in diameter. As a comets come into the inner solar system they warm, being closer to the sun, and being mostly ice they trail a cloud of gas. On a large comet this gas tail can be vast, millions of miles long.

Asteroids come in a huge range of sizes. The largest known in the solar system is Ceres, large enough to be classified as a Dwarf Planet, and has a diameter of about 590 miles. Most are much smaller, all the way down to the size of pebbles or dust.

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13y ago

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