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70%-80% of the comet is dry ice. The other 20%-30% is metal and rock. A comet has three main parts they include a head, a coma, and a tail. and it orbits the sun with an oliptical orbit, comets come from the oort cloud outside of our solar system or Kuiper belt which is a bit past neptune.

Meteors, are rocks roaming space on a predicted path, made of iron, and other metals and rocks

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