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Solar radiation causes the water, frozen gases and other volatile materials within the comet to vaporize and stream out of the nucleus, carrying dust away with them. The streams of dust and gas thus released form a huge, extremely tenuous atmosphere around the comet called the coma, and the force exerted on the coma by the Sun's radiation pressure and solar wind cause an enormous tail to form, which points away from the sun.
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What is the possessive form of comet?
The possessive form of the noun comet is comet's. Example: The comet's appearance was calculated for three AM.
What are 3 parts of a comet?
The three main parts of a comet are the nucleus, coma, and tail. The nucleus is the head of the comet, the coma is the middle, and the tail is the end of the comet.
What do planets like to read?
Comet books
Loose collection of rock and frozen gas that has a tail?
A comet
What small body circles the sun with a high eliptical orbit?
A comet because a comet is an icy ball traveling in space and when it passes the sun it begins to outgas and that is the tail we usually see.
Does the Tail of a comet form when it gets close enough to the sun to melt the nucleus?
Sort of. The nucleus get heated by solar radiation and warms up to the point where some of its ices delequess (they change from solid to gas directly without forming a liquid phase because of the low pressure in space) these come out of the nucleus in jets caring dusty particles form the comet along with them. These jets of gas from the tail. The nucleus does not melt unless the comet plunges into the Sun.
What is a ball of ice dust and gasses that travels through space and orbits the sun?
a comet/meteorite
Is Halley's comet a planet or a comet?
It is a comet.
Why cant we live on a comet?
Comets are very cold objects with no atmospheres and very weak gravity. When they go close to the sun the violently eject jets of gas.
Who is is better jets or giants?
Jets.
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?
Halley's Comet
How does a comet begin?
The comet's tail is in front of the comet, not after
What is a dead comet?
a dead comet is>......a out gassed comet.
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.
Which reindeer's name is also the name of a kitchen cleanser?
=The reindeer who's name is also the name of a kitchen cleanser is COMET=
What kind of comet is Halley's comet?
A short period comet.
