0
No. While comets contain some rock, they are mostly made of ice.
Wiki User
∙ 8y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What is the name of the celestial form that is made of frozen gases and solid rock?
A comet
Is a comet solid or gas?
It is solid ice and rock. The ice melts as it's coming near the sun though.
What is difference between a comet and a astriod?
A comet is a cloud of dust and an asteroid is a solid rock.
Which part of a comet is solid?
The nucleus is the solid part of a comet.
What is a icy rock called with a tail?
comet
What has the solid center portion of a comet?
The center of a comet is called its nucleus.
What is a long ribbonlike trail of comet dust and gas?
The tail of a comet is made up of a combination of frozen rock, and ice particles coming off the comet and is lit up by the sun. If you were to be in this tail, you would face: subzero temperatures and constant pummeling by SOLID ice and rock.
What is the comets head called?
The solid object at the head of a comet is called the comet nucleus.
What is the frozen portion of a comet?
The solid portion of a comet or more accurately, the source for all the gases and dust that make a comet visible to us, is called the nucleus.
Which part of the comet is solid?
We believe comets have a composition like a dirty snowball. They contain alot of ice and dust. The ice does trun into a gas when the comet approaches near to the sun and this causes the comet's tail to form.
What are the clouds around the solid part of a comet?
Me
What is a mass of gases dust particles and stars located in space called?
simple and easy a comet a comet has a solid center nucleus that contains rock particles trapped in frozen liqud this forms the tail: as it moves closer to the sun the "outer ice" turns to gas and the solid particles (pieces) turn to dust
