An orbit
asteroid belt
An orbit
It is called an orbit. A comet has an eccentric or parabolic orbit.
No. Some comets periodically pass by the Earth, such as Halley's comet, but the Sun primarily creates the path they follow. Saturn's moon, Phoebe, may have originated as a comet.
The path of a comet around the sun would depend on its mass, speed, and trajectory. It a comet enters the sun's gravitational field at the correct trajectory and speed, it would fall into a roughly circular orbit.
It means a path travelled by a planet, asteroid, meteor or a comet which goes around the sun once.
Comets in the solar system follow elliptical orbits around the Sun.
Planets follow an elliptical path around the Sun, with the Sun located at one of the two foci of the ellipse. This path is governed by the gravitational force between the planet and the Sun, according to Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
gravity pulls it towards the large object
The gravity from the Sun keeps pulling it back into an orbit - therefore they follow an elliptical path which brings them back towards the sun periodically..
Comets generally follow an elliptical path around the Sun, taking them from the outer edges of the solar system to close approaches to the Sun. As a comet gets closer to the Sun, the heat causes it to release gas and dust, forming a glowing coma and sometimes a tail that points away from the Sun due to solar wind. After their close approach, comets move back towards the outer solar system.
The force that keeps a comet in orbit around a larger celestial body, like the sun, is gravity. The gravitational pull between the comet and the larger body keeps the comet moving in a curved path around it.