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What is an icy rock that has bright tail when it comes close to the sun?
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∙ 13y ago
It is called a comet. The tail is formed out of gases and particles as it melts on its path round the Sun.
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What is the icy rock that has bright tail when it comes close to the sun?
It is called a comet. The tail is formed out of gases and particles as it melts on its path round the Sun.
What is the icy rock that has bright tail when it is close to the sun?
a comet
What is the icy rock that has a bright tail when it close to the sun?
a comet
What is a icy rock that has a tail when it comes close the sun?
a comet
What is the rock that has bright tail when it close to the sun?
It's called a comet. They're usually cimposed of rock and ice. As the object gets close to the sun, the heat causes the ice to evaporate, and the rock to melt. This is seen as the comet's 'tail'.
Loose collection of rock and frozen gas that has a tail?
A comet
A comet's tail grows larger as it?
A comet (a dirty snowball) is a mix of ice, dirt and rock. It orbits is a wide oval coming closest to the sun at it's perigee It's apogee is it's farthest point. As a comet comes close to the sun, the ice sublimates (turns directly from ice into steam). When a comet comes closest to the sun the tail is largest.
What is the brightest star in the constellation cygnus?
The brightest star in Cygnus, the Swan is the bright blue star, Deneb. It's name comes from an Arabic word meaning "tail", which makes sense, since Deneb is in the tail of the swan.
What is an icy rock that has bright tail when it comes close to the sun called?
You're fishing for "comet", but the setup of your riddle is defective.-- A comet need not necessarily be in orbit around the sun.Its appearance may be a once-in-eternity event.-- A comet only has a 'tail' during the small portion of its orbitwhen it's relatively near the sun.-- The whole notion of a "tail" is misleading. That particular whatchamacallitalways points away from the sun, so when the comet has rounded the sunand is headed out again, the so-called 'tail' goes in front of it.a comet
This large body of frozen ice and rock sometimes forms what appears to be a bright glowing tail when it gets near the Sun?
The Sun is pretty hot, so all the ice quickly melt, and you can see a tail! It actually also happens sometimes on the Earth.
What is a bright stream of gas that is blown off a comet?
A tail
What is the bandicoots behavior?
bright glemy eyes long tail
