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How can you differentiate a meteor from a comet other viewed from earth?

A comet is basically composed of space dust and frozen gases while a meteor is made up and does not orbit round the sun.


How many planets are mainly made up of gas and how mainly made up of rock?

There are 4 rocky planets and 4 gaseous planets in the solar system


What are galaxies mainly made of?

Galaxies are made up of billions to trillions of stars.


What compound is limestone mainly made up of?

Calcium Carbonate


What is the difference of a meteor and an asteroid?

An asteroid is a heavenly body which has its own orbit, between mars and jupiter, and revolve around the sun. It is made up of dust and rock. Meteor is also a heavenly body like asteroid but smaller than that.

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What creates a meteor?

Meteor showers are caused when space debris of any sort (man-made or not) hits the atmosphere and burns up.


Are Meteor showers Man made?

Meteor showers are not man made


What creates a meteor showers?

Meteor showers are caused when space debris of any sort (man-made or not) hits the atmosphere and burns up.


What is the Yukatan peninsula mostly made of?

it is made up of mostly the meteor that impacted there before the last ice age..


What mainly composed of ice dust and gas and often orbit the sun?

Meteor


What is earth mainly made up of?

water


How can you differentiate a meteor from a comet other viewed from earth?

A comet is basically composed of space dust and frozen gases while a meteor is made up and does not orbit round the sun.


What causes the bright streak in the sky known as a meteor?

When a meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere, a bright streak of light is seen because of the heat generation . This heat generation is caused by friction between the air molecules in the atmosphere and the meteor.


What is mercury is made of what?

Mercury's atmosphere is MAINLY made up of sodium


How many planets are mainly made up of gas and how mainly made up of rock?

There are 4 rocky planets and 4 gaseous planets in the solar system


A meteor is a meteoriod that?

A meteor is a meteoroid that... burns up in Earth's atmosphere.


What is south Africa mainly made up of?

carbon