The path of a comet around the sun would depend on its mass, speed, and trajectory. It a comet enters the sun's gravitational field at the correct trajectory and speed, it would fall into a roughly circular orbit.
It is called an orbit. A comet has an eccentric or parabolic orbit.
Halley's comet orbits the Sun. It follows a highly elliptical path that takes it from the outer solar system, where it interacts with the gravitational forces of the giant planets, back towards the inner solar system, passing close to the Sun.
No. Some comets periodically pass by the Earth, such as Halley's comet, but the Sun primarily creates the path they follow. Saturn's moon, Phoebe, may have originated as a comet.
Comets are celestial objects that have tails and move around the sun. When a comet is moving toward the sun, its tail points toward the sun.
Farthest: Aphelion (pr. ap-helion).
An orbit
An orbit
asteroid belt
It is called an orbit. A comet has an eccentric or parabolic orbit.
It means a path travelled by a planet, asteroid, meteor or a comet which goes around the sun once.
gravity pulls it towards the large object
The force that keeps a comet in orbit around a larger celestial body, like the sun, is gravity. The gravitational pull between the comet and the larger body keeps the comet moving in a curved path around it.
Halley's comet orbits the Sun. It follows a highly elliptical path that takes it from the outer solar system, where it interacts with the gravitational forces of the giant planets, back towards the inner solar system, passing close to the Sun.
No. Some comets periodically pass by the Earth, such as Halley's comet, but the Sun primarily creates the path they follow. Saturn's moon, Phoebe, may have originated as a comet.
The Sun
Comets are celestial objects that have tails and move around the sun. When a comet is moving toward the sun, its tail points toward the sun.
path of planet around the sun