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What is the definition of comet?

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a silly cake with donkeys

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A ball of ice orbiting the sun.

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What is the definition of a comet head?

A comet head is the top of the comet like its nucleus is on the top of the comet.


What is the definition of comet head?

a silly cake with donkeys


Is halleys comet part of the solar system?

Yes. Halley's Comet is a comet that orbits our sun, and the definition of "Part of the solar system" is 'Any object that orbits our sun.'


How should you describe a comet?

Beginning about 1950, the accepted astronomers definition of a comet was a "dirty snowball". That's still not bad, but more recent research has revealed that comets have many more solids and "tholins" (very basic organic compounds) than previously thought. Hence, the "improved" definition of a comet today is a "snowy dirtball".


How do supertitious about comet asteriods andmeteors have scientific basis?

They don't. By definition, a superstition does not have a scientific basis.


What is a short definition of comet?

a comet is an icy small Solar System Body that, when passing close to the Sun, heats up and begins to outgas, displaying a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes a tail.


What is a ball of ice dust and gasses that travels through space and orbits the sun?

a comet/meteorite


12) What is the definition of trajectory?

The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.


Is Halley's comet a planet or a comet?

It is a comet.


What names are given to different comets?

Comets are named after the people who have discovered it or by the shape or after break away from a parent comet. eg: Halley's comet Tempel-Tuffle comet Biela's comet Encke's comet Ikeya Seki comet kooutek comet comet west comet Bowell comet IRAS -Araki-Alcock Comet Austin.


What was the comet seen by ancient Mesopotamians?

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What is a dead comet?

a dead comet is>......a out gassed comet.