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All ices on comets sublime to gas as it approaches toe sun.

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What is a streaking object composed of ice and gas?

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How is a comet different from a asteroid?

An asteroid is hunks of rock or metal a comet is ice and as it gets closer to the sun it turns to water vapor as it gets further it turns back to ice.


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What are chunks of ice orbiting gas giants equator called?

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What is an ice comet?

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Is a comet solid or gas?

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How is the tail of a comet created?

The Comet's Tail forms when sunlight causes the Comet's ice to change to a gas. The gas or ion , tail of a comet streams from the comet's head, carrying with it dust particles. The solar wind electrically charged particles, expand away from the sun pushes the gas away from the comet's head. Regardless of where its going the tail points away from the sun.


A comet's tail grows larger as it?

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Liquid is to solid as water is to what?

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