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Usually comets are icy as that is why you see the icy trail, but asteroids can be icy too.
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What are the characteristics of comets meteoroids and asteroids?
comets are icy band cold. ha ha that's all i know
An icy object moving through space in a highly eccentric orbit is called?
That description could fit any number of bodies in the solar system, but generally "asteroid" might be closest. Other more distant objects such as comets or Kuiper Belt Objects would tend to be more icy than rocky.
What are Icy objects that light up the night sky?
comets.
What are the icy objects that light up the light sky?
comets.
What arethe icy objects with huge tails that orbit the sun?
They are called comets.
Other things in the solar system besides planets and the sun?
The star you see at night are not in the solar system; they are far outside of it. The only star in the solar system is the sun. The solar system contains the sun, the planets, the moons of the planets, as well as many asteroids, comets, icy objects in the outer solar system, and plenty of dust.
Are most comets found in either Oort cloud or the asteroid belt?
Rocky asteroids. Icy comets often live in and come from the Kuiper Belt.
Where is the location of the asteroids?
There are three main clusterings of asteroids in our solar system: the Asteroid Belt, the first one identified, which is composed mostly of rocky asteroids, the Kuiper Belt, which contains several dwarf planets, and many icy asteroids, and the Oort Cloud, a theoretical halo of sorts surrounding our solar system, comprised mainly of comets and icy asteroids.
Are comets from other galaxies?
No, they are not. They come from regions of asteroids that exist within our own solar system. Long period comets, the ones that appear once in thousands of years, probably come from the Oort Cloud, a spherical cloud of small icy asteroids believed to exist at the farthest outer reaches of the solar system. Short period comets like Halley's probably come from the Kuiper Belt, a ring of asteroids just beyone Neptune's orbit. The minor planet Pluto is the most famous Kuiper object. Not all objects in the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt are comets; in fact most are not.
How do comets behave?
Comets are just very icy asteroids, they become comets when a large enough of a body of mass, i.e. jupiter or saturn. When this happens, the asteroid gets thrown into an extremely high elliptical orbit. They ideally have an orbit perpindicular to the ecliptic.
How are comets asteroids and meteorites different?
Asteroids orbit the Sun between the orbits of the planet Mars and the planet Jupiter. Comets orbit the Sun on very elliptical orbits, originating from the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune or the Oort cloud at the edges of the solar system. Comets are also usually (but not always) icy bodies that give of gas and dust (a tail) as they approach and get heated by the Sun. Meteorites are bodies that were Asteroids or Comets that have hit the planet Earth and landed on the surface.
What do you call a swarm of comets?
There is not a formal name, but a "swarm" or "shower" (meteors), or a "field" (asteroids) or "cloud". Comets are small icy objects that originated from a region of space out near the very edge of our solar system. Out there, all the objects (included the small icy/dusty objects that later may become comets) are collectively called the scattered disc. Occasionally, the small icy/dusty object will get knocked toward the sun (by gravitational processes rather than actually colliding with anything). When they get close enough, solar wind brushes off dust and ice and creates the comet's tail. The icy/dusty object is then, officially, a comet. Because objects in the scattered disc are so sparsely distributed (i.e. they are all very far apart from each other) it is nigh on impossible that a large number of them would all get knocked in towards the sun and all become comets. At least, not nowadays. Maybe in the early days of the solar system when all the planets were forming. But not now.
