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What is the name of the cloud with frozen comets that is by Pluto?

The cloud of frozen comets that surrounds Pluto is called the Kuiper Belt.


What is the name of cloud that contains many comets outside of the solar system?

The Oort cloud


What is a mass of frozen gas and dust?

Most likely you are referring to a Nebula, but there are other astronomical objects made of a cloud of dust.


What is name for the portion of the outer solar system where comets can be found?

the oort cloud and the kuiper belt


How were comets found?

Comets come from the Oort cloud and the Kupier Belt


What are celestial comets?

Celestial comets is a more formal name for comets. Comets are objects in space orbiting the Sun with long orbits. They are thought to be made of frozen water. As they near the Sun they produce a long glowing tail trailing behind.


What is the name for the outer part of the solar system where comets can be found?

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Where are comets created?

Comets are created in the Oort cloud. The Oort cloud is a big circle of ice and dust surrounding our solar system.


Where in space are comets?

in the oort cloud


The oort cloud is the home of?

Comets.


What originates on the Oort cloud?

Comets


Frozen masses of gases and rocks?

in outer space we call them comets. on earth, we call them snowballs. Comets are thought to originate in Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud and consist of debris frozen together. Comets orbit in an elliptical pattern around the sun and produce the tail when near it. Snowballs, on the other hand, are usually formed only during the wintertime and tend to orbit in straight lines toward people's heads.