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Where do comets travel?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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situation I: They fly until get caught by gravity from another planet and then get burned up entering the atmosphere or crash on the planet.

situation II: They fly until they approach a star and over time get burned up. What's left is decent sized rocks.

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Comets do not fly; they fall. Comets orbit the sun billions of miles from the Sun, in the cold dark far reaches of the Solar System.

Slowly, over decades or centuries, a comet will fall toward the sun, slowly warming in the light and heat of the star. At some point, the warmth of the sun will begin to melt the frozen gasses and the comet will begin to grow a "tail", a stream of gas reflecting the Sun's light.

The comet, falling faster and faster toward the sun, then whips around the sun propelled by gravity and continue to fall back into space.

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The comet travels in space and 12km past the moon.

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