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A cloud of gas surrounding the nucleus.
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∙ 10y agoMostly not. Some rock is present, but comets are characterized y being largely composed of ice.
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∙ 11y agoNo comets are held together by ice
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∙ 11y agonucleus
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∙ 15y agogaseous
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∙ 13y agogas
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What is the glowing head of comets called?
It is called a Coma.
Why don't asteroids and meteors do not have a coma?
Because they do not have volatiles in them to form a coma as to comets.
What are the 3 parts of comets?
Nucleus coma tail
What is comets main points?
The tail, the coma, and the nucleus.
Cloud vaporized gases around a comets nucleus?
Scientifically it would be a coma.
What is the glowing head of comets called?
It is called a Coma.
Why don't asteroids and meteors do not have a coma?
Because they do not have volatiles in them to form a coma as to comets.
What are the 3 parts of comets?
Nucleus coma tail
What is comets main points?
The tail, the coma, and the nucleus.
What are the parts to comets?
1-nucleus 2-coma 3-tail
What three things are comets made of?
Comets are made of mainly 3 parts -dust tail, ion tail and coma
Cloud vaporized gases around a comets nucleus?
Scientifically it would be a coma.
When will you be able to see a comets coma?
When you hit it very hard over the head.
How are meteorides and comets different?
comets have a halo/coma/tail surrounding and behind it caused by evaporation of ice. Metorides dont have this. Comets have high eccentrical orbits, meteroides not as much.
Why comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not?
Beacuse asteroids are chunks of solid rock - Comets are primarily lumps of ice - which melts as it nears the sun !
What do you call a clould of dust and gas that forms around a comets nucleus do to solar heating?
coma
Why do the speed of the comets increase as they near the sun?
It gives off gas and dust in the form of a coma and a tail.
