That sounds more like a comet. Meteroids are relatively small rocks. They might have traces of ice or other frozen materials that would be gas at our temperature, but mostly they are just rock, because ice in such small quantities would tend to bleed away into space.
Asteroids are much larger, and may often have ice and frozen "gases", but only as a relatively small part of their volume.
Comets, on the other hand, are generally ice and frozen gases, with some rock mixed in.
Comets
No. it's made up of ice, rock and frozen gases!
A comet is made up of frozen gases, rock particles, and cosmic dust. As a comet gets closer to the sun, the heat causes the frozen gases to vaporize, creating a glowing coma around the nucleus.
it is made up of frozen gases which becomes ice
The celestial form made of frozen gases and solid rock is called a comet. Comets typically have a nucleus of rock and ice surrounded by a glowing coma and sometimes a tail when they come close to the sun.
Yes, all of these, plus water ice, can be constituents of meteroroids (tiny asteroids orbiting the Sun).They are also the substances that comets are made of, as evidenced by their decomposition as the gases are heated by the Sun. Comets are defined by the long tails of material explosively ejected from the comet bodies.The exact mix is determined by the type of meteoroid and its orbit. Those in the outer solar system are more likely to contain higher percentages of ice and frozen gas. These volatiles are less present in the objects orbiting the inner solar system, due to solar heating.
asteroid
No, meteorites are not made of frozen gases. They are solid pieces of rock or metal that have entered the Earth's atmosphere from space and survived the journey to impact the Earth's surface.
pluto's atmoshpere
Its a meteoroid! or an asteroid
Is madE of rock
Comet.